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Great comment for historical perspective. But just out of curiosity, why did you need to edit a log file?

• willvarfar 9y ago
  just going to do fancy find replace. Sometimes when you have to actually read log files its easier in a text editor than on the command line.
  • bigato 9y ago
    Were you on windows? Because I can't imagine fancier find and replace than grep, awk, sed, cut and friends. Or maybe 'less' if you want to page and do simple searches. But maybe that's just because I'm used to these tools.
    • willvarfar 9y ago
      OSX and linux. I use the command line a lot. And often write scripts in python to chew through and transform logs. Still sometimes want to open big text files in GUI editors though...