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

Karl Anderson kra at monkey.org
Thu May 10 20:34:07 EDT 2001


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.

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Karl Anderson      kra at monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/



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