16 Jul
2025
16 Jul
'25
12:09 p.m.
IMHO, the best tutorials on ed are the chapters in "Software Tools"
and "Software Tools in Pascal" where Kernighan and Plauger write
a basic version of it. I recommend both books highly, despite
their age.
"Software Tools" literally changed my life. :-)
Arnold
Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> 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.