From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:10:41 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: 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