On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:47:14PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin..... > > > > I still use ed... > > ed - is that the DOS full screen editor? Vastly superior to edlin, of > course. And it was simple, consistent and it worked. What more could one > want? ;)
Nah, that was EDIT.COM - before that appeared I used to use the Turbo C editor to edit text files; I think the guys who wrote EDIT.COM did too. ed is /bin/ed - the *nix equivalent of Edlin... I use it for simple/repetitive edits (like sticking "> " at the beginning of each line of something I'm going to quote) and/or where I don't want to lose the context of what I'm working on by wiping out the contents of the screen opening a full screen editor. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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