Hi, curious about how that had felt in ancient times, when hardware and software were limited, I tried 'ed' - the one and only editor ;)
One feature I cant figure out (and the reason for that may be, that it is not there... :) is: One has to specify the line, which s/he wants to edit. This is possible via regexp (which matches more than one line and may be not, what you want) and via line numbers. In case one wants to use line numbers: One can list the whole text to the console...but the line numbers are missing. The "visual version of ed" called 'vi' is able to preceed any line with a line number. Is this possible with ed? How does one know the number of a specific line? Or do I miss something very fundamental here ??? Thanks for any help in advance! Best regards, Meino
