[TUHS] Bootstrapping UNIX - how was it done

[Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS]

Hello Ron,

That has been my experience with ed. The more I use it, the more muscle memory kicks in and sometimes I feel like a spectator, watching my own hands achieving stuff with a text file or program I'd not have ever thought I could do.

Have a good one!

Cameron



-------- Original Message --------
On Monday, 03/23/26 at 20:10 Ron Natalie via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
I never learned vi.   I went from ed, via a short hop with INed (or as
we called it, the Bland editor), to EMACS.
If there’s no EMACS, I limp along with ed until I get something ported
over.   If I’m forced to use VI, I just run it in “ex” mode.
My employees were always amazed how fast I could edit things with just
plain ed.   You learned regular expressions out of necessity.

-Ron