[TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix

[Will Senn]

I wasn't going to say it earlier, but now that you've said something 
about it... I was thinking, thank god, ed isn't teco! :).

On 11/14/17 8:37 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> It took me a while to realize that ed(1) is what TECO should have 
> been.... Too much TECO trauma scared me away for far too long.... But 
> maybe it was all the TECO macros I wrote to make the BH100 terminal 
> useful as an editor in full screen mode....
>
> Warner
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com 
> <mailto:lm at mcvoy.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1. Anyone who gets this is someone I'd work with.
>
>     On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:10:41PM -0600, Will Senn wrote:
>     > On 11/14/17 7:25 PM, Nemo wrote:
>     > >On 31/10/2017, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
>     <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
>     > >>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).
>     > >ed man; man ed
>     > >
>     > >https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
>     <https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html> (Sorry -- could not
>     resist)
>     > >
>     > >N.
>     >
>     > For all that it's the butt of jokes, ed is awesome. I didn't really
>     > appreciate it until vi wasn't an easy goto option anymore (v6).
>     After
>     > reading Kernighan's tutorial, I kind of fell in love with it.
>     g/re/p? Who'd
>     > of thunk it? ed may not be 'visual', but the entire document is
>     editable and
>     > its support of regex and the global command are incredibly powerful.
>     > Especially, for so incredibly tiny an editor. Finally, ed is the
>     sibling of
>     > sed and once I got the connection there, it opened up a whole
>     new world of
>     > editing awesomeness.
>     >
>     > Will
>     >
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>     --
>     ---
>     Larry McVoy                  lm at mcvoy.com <http://mcvoy.com>
>     http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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>

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