[TUHS] End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference)

[Will Senn]

I heart ed and it's cousin, vi. After poring through the v6 manual and 
tutorial, I started loving ed. I ditched vim a while back and embraced 
nvi (berkeley's modern basic vi/ex). Very simple, very basic, extremely 
powerful, none of the bloat - basically heirloom with a few refinements.


Will

On 7/16/25 06:13, Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS wrote:
> Ah, rabbit holes. Dangerous things. I went down the ed rabbit hole around a month ago and no sign of me finding my way back out any time soon.
>
> I got obsessed with getting ed running on every device I have including my phones and then the big rabbit hole off that first one was learning how to use it properly and to the fullest of its abilities. That'll take a while.
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> My library of ed related publications is getting so big its likely what's blocking the exit to the rabbit hole. On the plus side it has sharpened my typing skills, improved my patience and I I've learned to work out for myself what I've done to cause ed to say ?, instead of just typing h+Enter.
>
> As rabbit holes go, it's been stimulating so far and I could be stuck in worse places.
>
> Have a safe one!
>
> Cameron
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On 16/07/2025 01:01, Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com> wrote:
>
>>   I just noticed that algorithm and logarithm just have a couple of
>>   letters transposed from each other. So that's the kind of rabbit hole I
>>   get lost in most days.
>>