[TUHS] "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Jul 1 07:21:53 AEST 2022


When your tty settings are messed up, ed(1) has saved my butt a number 
of times.  Also really pleasant to use on slow modems where just the
screen refresh takes a long time.

ed foo.c
/^busted_function
.,.+20p

is dramatically faster than vi(1) at 300 baud.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:49:19PM +0100, Chris Pinnock via TUHS wrote:
> Editing /etc/inittab with ed(1).
> 
> > On 30 Jun 2022, at 21:43, Robert Stanford via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> > 
> > editing /etc/inittab
> > 

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