[TUHS] upwards from ed (was: End of an era: the last ATC)

[Rob Pike]

I often think about the old ad from Symbolics touting EMACS's "over 400
easy to use commands."

-ro

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> I always recoiled from vi's plethora of commands. Then came sam, and I
> haven't looked back since. It handles multiple windows with barely
> more commands than ed, real regular expressions, good mouse support,
> and great global editing capability. It can even run by script without
> a screen.
>
> Doug
>
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