Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

[David LeBlanc]

In article <m0u22syb9c.fsf at dclxvi.foobar.not>, kra at monkey.org says...
> grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
> 
> > In article <9de8ms$7tr$1 at panix6.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote:
> > >Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> > >>There was "edlin" which was a rather lame attempt at a
> > >>line-oriented editor.  It was pretty much useless compared to
> > >>the Unix line editor "ed".
> > >
> > >You speak about "ed" as if it were in the past tense.  
> > 
> > No, I speak of edlin in the past tense.  I've a good friend who
> > still uses ed occasionally, and watching an experienced ed user
> > at work it is truly something amazing.
> 
> ed is a lot easier to use in an emacs shell buffer.  I do it a lot
> when I don't want to bother with starting a new emacs as a more
> priveleged user.
> 
> 
And let us not forget the oh so wonderful teco!!

I don't see ed and edlin as being so far fetched from the edit mode of 
vi(m) and friends.

Dave LeBlanc