[TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Nov 1 13:23:24 AEST 2017
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> I’m a bizarre UNIX relic. I never learned vi. I went from “ed” to the
> various emacs variants (starting with Warren Montgomery’s EMACS, then
> JOVE and UNIPRESS, and later GNU). I used INed (a commercialization of
> the Rand editor) but didn't particularly like that either. My coworkers
> for years would be amused when if I found the machine had no EMACS
> variant, I’d just use ed. I could be startlingly fast in ed and you do
> learn regular expressions well if you have to do a lot of editing that
> way. On a few machines where I’m confronted with VI and no ed/emacs, I
> just use VI in “ex” mode.
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).
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