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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.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: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 16:13:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEgPGn1a1kArip3U@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxz-qbCQVcaeJ8ot=qb5Q1Mu3jSrEmuG3UpfHbV=fPy6g@mail.gmail.com>

Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> once said:
> I likely made the "venerable" substitution. I regret that now.

9front is carrying the torch.

changeset:   4289:e62c2add78cd
parent:      4287:cc0dd57e33f1
user:        khm
date:        Fri Feb 20 15:09:25 2015 -0500
files:       sys/man/1/ed
description:
restore balance to reality


diff --git a/sys/man/1/ed b/sys/man/1/ed
--- a/sys/man/1/ed
+++ b/sys/man/1/ed
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Ed
-is a venerable text editor.
+is the standard text editor.
 .PP
 If a
 .I file

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-10  0:25 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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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