From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:48:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_SDxmOanngFxoE=a7WKdqicNeP8uWo2Y=i=MV347dA1XA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgzzzE3vYcBgV4sSSsosBJSZbTPVdMHr3vgRk6Z727tOMw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 5:31 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm curious when people (other than me) erred and stopped saying that ed
> was the standard editor.
>
They haven't. When a vi vs. Emacs (vel sim.) argument is swirling around
me, I explain that ex(1) is the editor I use. People say "But ed(1) is the
standard editor!" To which I reply, "Yes, but I'm willing to trade a
little standardosity for a little convenience."
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
I Hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference
which hath happened betwixt us.
--Thomas Fuller, Appeal of Injured Innocence (1659)
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 16:21 Norman Wilson
2021-03-09 20:11 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-09 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-09 20:36 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-09 22:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-09 22:46 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 23:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-10 0:01 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-10 0:13 ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-10 18:37 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2021-03-10 19:49 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-10 20:17 ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-10 20:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 3:54 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-11 4:57 ` Will Senn
2021-03-10 2:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-12 2:48 ` John Cowan [this message]
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