[TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested

[John Cowan]

I fall back to ed or tr when I hit the bug in vim that prevents you from
inserting a newline with the s command (it inserts a NUL instead).

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:59 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> I always recommend doing the exercises in Rob and Brian's UPE on ed
> because then everything else makes sense, like sed or any other editor.
>  Plus you get the advantage you point out, and the reality is that so many
> simpler editors (like edlin) have similar functionality, it means you can
> get something done, just about anywhere.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:14 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>
>> > Since I find ed thoroughly unpleasant to use, having a screen editor
>> was
>> > a must for me to use v7 for any length of time, and s fills that role
>> > rather nicely.
>>
>> A boss of mine insisted that we all learned "ed", because one day it
>> might
>> be the only editor available to you after a crash; he was right...
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
>
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