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Subject: RE: [9fans] Newbie: life without rio
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and on-the-job training as an admin, was vi. for years that's all i
ever used. then one day at work i had to use ed on a system with=20
something busted with the console. an older unix type had to show
me where to start, but learning the regexp stuff was amaxing. i
still used vi regularly, but the stuff i learned in ed made me much
more productive there. and that's saying nothing of the tons of
other places the regexp stuff shows up.

a friend of mine is currently in school for a CS degree. they
taught him vi and emacs, but without any of the regexp stuff. i
tried to get him to learn ed, but he couldn't understand why you'd
want to. i guess it'll take until he's got nothing else to understand.
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