From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 16541 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2022 19:14:02 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Jul 2022 19:14:02 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE102406FA; Sat, 9 Jul 2022 05:13:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from marmaro.de (marmaro.de [176.28.23.198]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2828240619 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2022 05:13:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: by marmaro.de (masqmail 0.3.6-dev, from userid 1000) id 1o9tPh-48W-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:13:17 +0200 To: tuhs@tuhs.org In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Ken Thompson message dated "Fri, 08 Jul 2022 09:01:43 -0700." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-ID: <15903.1657307597.1@marmaro.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:13:17 +0200 From: markus schnalke Message-ID: <1o9tPh-48W-00@marmaro.de> Message-ID-Hash: QC4PVD3D54PY2W2LHKPMJMIIV4UX37DD X-Message-ID-Hash: QC4PVD3D54PY2W2LHKPMJMIIV4UX37DD X-MailFrom: meillo@marmaro.de X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: ed: multiple addresses (with semicolons) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Hoi, thanks for your replies, Doug and Ken. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the ``Multics Condensed Guide'' on multicians.org. Can someone please provide a link? Interrestingly, I discovered that qed had double quotes (") as a comment command, which simply ignores the rest of the line. As far as I know, there's no way to comment ed scripts. Why was that dropped? In ex(1) the " comment command reappeared. I've always wondered why it used this character for comments. Seems it comes from qed, leaping over ed, but reappearing in ex. meillo [2022-07-08 09:01] Ken Thompson > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:24 AM Douglas McIlroy > wrote: > = > The interpretation of a string of addresses separated by commas and/o= r > semicolons was already defined in the v1 man page for ed. > = > Ed was essentially a stripped-down version of Multics qed. The latter > was originally > written by Ken. Unfortunately the "Multics Condensed Guide" online at > multicians.org describes how strings of addresses were interpreted > only by canonical examples for the various editing requests. > = > I=C2=A0 have no specific memory of semicolons in qed. I have a vague > recollection that semicolons originated in ed, however you should put > no trust in this. Maybe Ken remembers. > = > Doug > = > String of addresses was same for qed and ed. > =