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From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:50:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490712240150r170c45f1x196cc4d1700e636c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B5C3784-0F7A-41AA-9376-7E579254ACD4@mac.com>

The command
  g/^/m0
works in ed because the move commands are done in sequence.
In sam and (supposedly) acme, they're done atomically, and result
in a big no-op.  They have a completely different model of execution.

The acme problem is just a bug that should be fixed.

-rob


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-24  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-24  4:17 Anthony Martin
2007-12-24  4:28 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-24  4:37   ` Anthony Martin
2007-12-24  9:50   ` Rob Pike [this message]
2007-12-24  5:25 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-24 17:24   ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-24 17:35     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-25  1:51       ` [9fans] ipod + plan9 Philipp
2007-12-25  5:20         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-26 12:52 ` [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command roger peppe
2007-12-26 17:52   ` ron minnich
2007-12-27  3:36 ` Rob Pike
2007-12-28  6:08 Joshua Wood

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