[TUHS] ed: multiple addresses (with semicolons)

Angelo Papenhoff aap at papnet.eu
Sun Jul 10 19:25:19 AEST 2022


On 08/07/22, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Ed was essentially a stripped-down version of Multics qed. The latter
> was originally written by Ken.

Does anyone know if this version has survived? Current Multics has qedx,
but it seems to be a stripped down version of qed as well. In fact I
find Unix ed nicer to use than qedx.

And a question about pronunciation: I've heard qedx pronounced as
"queddix" and I know ed is "ee dee". What about qed?

aap


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