17 Jul
2025
17 Jul
'25
5:06 p.m.
I heart ed and it's cousin, vi. After poring through the v6 manual and
tutorial, I started loving ed. I ditched vim a while back and embraced
nvi (berkeley's modern basic vi/ex). Very simple, very basic, extremely
powerful, none of the bloat - basically heirloom with a few refinements.
Will
On 7/16/25 06:13, Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS wrote:
Ah, rabbit holes. Dangerous things. I went down the ed
rabbit hole around a month ago and no sign of me finding my way back out any time soon.
I got obsessed with getting ed running on every device I have including my phones and
then the big rabbit hole off that first one was learning how to use it properly and to the
fullest of its abilities. That'll take a while.
My library of ed related publications is getting so big its likely what's blocking
the exit to the rabbit hole. On the plus side it has sharpened my typing skills, improved
my patience and I I've learned to work out for myself what I've done to cause ed
to say ?, instead of just typing h+Enter.
As rabbit holes go, it's been stimulating so far and I could be stuck in worse
places.
Have a safe one!
Cameron
-------- Original Message --------
On 16/07/2025 01:01, Luther Johnson <luther.johnson(a)makerlisp.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that algorithm and logarithm just have a couple of
> letters transposed from each other. So that's the kind of rabbit hole I
> get lost in most days.
>