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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: mounting Plan9 fs on linux
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I hacked the Seventh Edition Ed many years ago to include
the `b' command and left vi(1) behind.  I used ed from 1984
until 1995 when I could use sam(1).  I think that people who
have have never lived on ed for any length of time have  missed
out.

  Brantle Coile

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	I've even ported the plan 9 version of
	ed (which is the best of the true descendants of the
	original ed) back to UNIX, and run it at work on IRIX
	and at home on freeBSD.

The penny drops: the b command and elisions of terminal
slashes are now in open source!  That didn't take long;
just 24 years?

In another 24 years, programmers will learn how to use malloc.

-rob