The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: brad@heeltoe.com (Brad Parker)
Subject: [Unix-jun72] ed
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:01:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11064.1210042875@mini> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506023102.GA21567@minnie.tuhs.org>


Warren Toomey wrote:
>Warren Toomey scripsit:
>> I have avoided [learning ed] so far.
> 
>On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:16:17PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>> You have?  But ed is the standard editor!
>
>I got into UNIX by the time vi was around, so I missed out on ed.

I think I started around v6, because for some odd reason I can do 
ed in my sleep.  

playing with v1 I was shocked at how I just jumped right into ed,
typing things like "1,$p" on autopilot.

it was sort of scary :-) but it came back immediately.

I think at some point I spent some time with ex also, which was
sort of post ed, pre vi.  Maybe on sun-1's?  I can't remember, but
the commands seem to translate.

I can do vi but it's always a strain.  ed is less complex.

-brad




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 12:53 [Unix-jun72] Hey, the fortran compiler works too Warren Toomey
2008-05-05 18:02 ` Wilko Bulte
2008-05-05 18:52   ` Johan Beisser
2008-05-05 19:22     ` Wilko Bulte
2008-05-05 19:38       ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-05-05 19:43         ` Al Kossow
2008-05-05 19:45           ` Johan Beisser
2008-05-05 20:09           ` Michael Kerpan
2008-05-05 23:49             ` Warren Toomey
2008-05-06  2:16               ` John Cowan
2008-05-06  2:31                 ` [Unix-jun72] ed Warren Toomey
2008-05-06  2:34                   ` John Cowan
2008-05-06  3:01                   ` Brad Parker [this message]
2008-05-06  3:10                     ` John Cowan
2008-05-06  2:40                 ` [Unix-jun72] Hey, the fortran compiler works too Johan Beisser
2008-05-05 21:54           ` M. Warner Losh
2008-05-06  9:02             ` Wesley Parish
2008-05-05 19:47       ` Peter Jeremy

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=11064.1210042875@mini \
    --to=brad@heeltoe.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).