[TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Arthur Krewat
krewat at kilonet.net
Thu Nov 16 02:23:20 AEST 2017
Ah, a later reply pointed out the minimalist thing. never mind ;)
On 11/15/2017 11:13 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> I still don't get what was so bad about TECO.
>
> *20t$$
> <20 lines of text>
> *fs<text to search for>$<text to replace it with>$$
> *0lt$$ ; type current line to review what you've changed.
>
> Very simple.
>
> *<fstextsearch$textreplace$>$$
>
> replace all occurrences of textsearch.
>
> Now, of course, searching for something like a regular expression was
> much harder.
>
> Q-registers, all sorts of cool stuff.
>
> But then, maybe I'm talking about a later version of TECO than you
> all. I think I was on version 22 on TOPS-10 6.03A
>
>
> On 11/14/2017 10:07 PM, Will Senn wrote:
>> 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
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF
>>>
>>> --
>>> ---
>>> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com <http://mcvoy.com>
>>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF
>
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