From: Anders Damsgaard <anders@adamsgaard.dk>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Remember the ed thread?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:09:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGHtnofgfJUnqc+R@asa.adamsgaard.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210329143449.GA28080@mcvoy.com>
* Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> [2021-03-29 07:34:49 -0700]:
>I had *.clients.your-server.de crawling mcvoy.com in violation of my
>robots.txt. For whatever reason, the tty settings (or something)
>made vi not work, I dunno what the deal is, stty -tabs didn't help.
>
>So I had to resort to ed to write and debug the little program below.
>It was surprisingly pleasant, it's probably the first time I've used ed
>for anything real in at least a decade. My fingers still know it.
>
>+1 for ed. It's how many decades old and still useful?
I recently learned ed(1) for the first time (I have a unix beard, but it's
not grey yet). I found ed to be very efficient and useful for small fixes,
even on slow connections. This beginner's tutorial was very helpful
for me: gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt
(https mirror for non-gopher clients:
https://adamsgaard.dk/npub/ed_tutorial.txt )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 14:34 Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 15:09 ` Anders Damsgaard [this message]
2021-03-29 15:26 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:36 ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:43 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:52 ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 15:51 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 17:22 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CALMnNGgWrFRjXk5N4PgTj0_Yw3W5nCR2=CYSASM6dnqTooy8Dw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30 8:53 ` arnold
2021-03-29 15:37 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 15:42 ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 16:01 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 18:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-03-29 16:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-29 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-29 20:50 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2021-03-29 20:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:10 ` Erik E. Fair
2021-03-29 21:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 22:29 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-30 4:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-30 7:37 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-03-30 15:00 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2021-03-29 15:58 Norman Wilson
2021-03-30 0:11 ` John Cowan
2021-03-29 23:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-30 3:39 ` Rich Morin
[not found] <CAKH6PiXmR6Jv0bkyOtHuk1ZLV64aeW7bnQkUnzV9-G_JaUVDAA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30 23:38 ` John Cowan
2021-03-31 2:34 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-31 0:54 Norman Wilson
2021-03-31 1:29 ` John Cowan
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