From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Good ol' ed (Was *ROFF)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:17:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201805151417.w4FEHcIF009897@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01e701d3ec45$e7211580$b5634080$@ronnatalie.com>
"Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> I never really learned VI. I can stumbled through it in ex mode if I have
> to. If there's no EMACS on the UNIX system I'm using, I use ed.
> You get real good at regular expressions. Some of my employees were
> pretty amazed at how fast I could make code changes with just ed.
I did learn vi, after having learned ed first. I drop down to the ex
command line for major regexp-based surgery too. I also get the amazement
from co-workers who watch me do stuff. :-) This is particularly true
of the, er, younger coworkers (kids today ... :-) who can't manage
outside an IDE.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-15 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-15 12:11 Ron Natalie
2018-05-15 14:17 ` arnold [this message]
2018-05-15 14:37 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 14:47 ` Clem cole
2018-05-15 15:12 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 15:09 ` arnold
2018-05-15 15:18 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 15:34 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-15 16:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 23:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 16:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-15 20:04 ` Cág
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