From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:10:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6a4be09-50d5-fbc5-ca3d-84b91269db3d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzzDhxUBqiwTahWg-AbLaEA+NB03x3iFNresKh7ZnkB+Fw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/14/17 7:25 PM, Nemo wrote:
> On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> 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
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Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-30 14:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-30 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-30 15:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-31 10:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-01 3:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 13:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-16 1:17 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-11-15 1:25 ` Nemo
2017-11-15 2:10 ` Will Senn [this message]
2017-11-15 2:16 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 2:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-15 3:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 16:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 18:13 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:01 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 19:52 ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 20:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 20:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 22:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 22:42 ` [TUHS] :nohlsearch in vim Chris Torek
2017-11-16 2:44 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16 4:34 ` [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 4:36 ` Jim Capp
2017-11-16 8:42 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-11-18 14:39 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-16 9:19 ` arnold
2017-11-16 21:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 22:58 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17 2:17 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-17 2:38 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-17 3:56 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-17 4:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-17 8:44 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-17 3:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-17 6:51 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-16 0:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16 0:35 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16 0:52 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-16 9:29 ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Mutiny
2017-11-16 14:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 21:26 ` Random832
2017-11-17 9:08 ` Mutiny
2017-11-16 20:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 21:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-17 6:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-15 9:58 ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2017-11-15 11:42 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 16:42 ` arnold
2017-11-01 17:17 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 18:03 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-01 18:06 ` arnold
2017-11-01 20:16 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-01 20:37 ` arnold
2017-11-01 21:04 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-02 0:05 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02 0:10 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-31 16:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2017-10-30 21:50 ` Charles Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-15 14:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-15 17:12 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 17:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 18:40 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-01 22:51 Norman Wilson
2017-11-01 23:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 20:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-10-31 19:23 Norman Wilson
2017-10-30 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-18 23:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-19 3:53 ` Random832
2017-10-19 14:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:41 ` Random832
2017-10-19 21:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-20 19:54 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 17:52 Clem Cole
2017-10-16 18:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-17 13:51 ` Tony Finch
2017-10-17 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 0:55 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-30 2:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Andy Kosela
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