From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:37:29 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: <20171115021648.GL6265@mcvoy.com> References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171115021648.GL6265@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: It took me a while to realize that ed(1) is what TECO should have been.... Too much TECO trauma scared me away for far too long.... But maybe it was all the TECO macros I wrote to make the BH100 terminal useful as an editor in full screen mode.... Warner On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > +1. Anyone who gets this is someone I'd work with. > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:10:41PM -0600, Will Senn wrote: > > On 11/14/17 7:25 PM, Nemo wrote: > > >On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > >>A previous boss insisted that all his support staff learn ED, because > one > > >>day it might be the only editor available on a trashed box (you can't > > >>mount /usr etc). > > >ed man; man ed > > > > > >https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html (Sorry -- could not resist) > > > > > >N. > > > > For all that it's the butt of jokes, ed is awesome. I didn't really > > appreciate it until vi wasn't an easy goto option anymore (v6). After > > reading Kernighan's tutorial, I kind of fell in love with it. g/re/p? > Who'd > > of thunk it? ed may not be 'visual', but the entire document is editable > and > > its support of regex and the global command are incredibly powerful. > > Especially, for so incredibly tiny an editor. Finally, ed is the sibling > of > > sed and once I got the connection there, it opened up a whole new world > of > > editing awesomeness. > > > > Will > > > > -- > > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com > http://www.mcvoy.com/lm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: