And, of course, even worse editing with cat!
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 5:22 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> When your tty settings are messed up, ed(1) has saved my butt a number
> of times.  Also really pleasant to use on slow modems where just the
> screen refresh takes a long time.
>
> ed foo.c
> /^busted_function
> .,.+20p
>
> is dramatically faster than vi(1) at 300 baud.
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:49:19PM +0100, Chris Pinnock via TUHS wrote:
> > Editing /etc/inittab with ed(1).
> >
> > > On 30 Jun 2022, at 21:43, Robert Stanford via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > editing /etc/inittab
> > >
>
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