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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:15:46 +0200
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nigel@9fs.org wrote:
> In my ignorant youth, I once used em(1), so called Ed for Mortals.  I
> can't now remember what the differences were.  Perhaps it printed
> 'huh?'  rather than '?'  to be more 'helpful'.

I don't think it printed 'huh?'.  I used it too but can't remember
the differences either.  I have some dim memory of it printing terse
error messages rather than '?'.

> Anyhow, I only had to transpose 'e' to 'r' once when invoking it
> (easily done, even on boyd's keyboard) to decide never to use it again.

Another point in ed's favour is that I'm yet to see 'e' and 'd' not
where they 'should' be.  'm' however is next to 'l' on azerty.

Good thing Plan 9 has ed 'cos sam -d is just a bit too 'special'; slightly
reminiscent of teco, except sam's 'dot' is some arbitrary size.  As well
as the fact that the 'a' and '-' keytops can be in 'weird' places too:

    azerty:

        'a' = 'q'
        '-' = unshifted 6

    swedish qwerty:

        '-' = '/'

So you have to ignore the keytops and think 'qwerty'.