From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:01:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgxz-qbCQVcaeJ8ot=qb5Q1Mu3jSrEmuG3UpfHbV=fPy6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2103091850310.15857@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>
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The phrase disappeared from the manuals at some point. I might have
committed the offense myself: The Research Unix manuals all continue the
phrase, but the Plan 9 ones say:
ED(1) ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -o ] [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is a venerable text editor.
I likely made the "venerable" substitution. I regret that now.
Ed is the standard editor.
-rob
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:53 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Rob Pike wrote:
>
> > I'm curious when people (other than me) erred and stopped saying that ed
> > was the standard editor.
> >
> > -rob
> >
>
> I actually use that expression in somewhat unorthodox ways. ;)
>
> Like "CDE is the standard desktop environment like ed is the standard text
> editor." (I still consider both to be true even though about no one uses
> either anymore.)
>
> -uso.
>
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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 [this message]
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
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