17 Jul
2025
17 Jul
'25
8:03 p.m.
:sp[lit]
is enough to keep me in vim. That's a killer feature.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:06:03PM -0500, Will Senn wrote:
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 M????e??l 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.
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