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Is Line Editing a Lost Art?
- dang 7y agoThe two essays the author mentions but doesn't link to: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview1 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/06/featuresreview... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editing-books-publishing https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/11/lost-art-editi...
- scarmig 7y agoAnd to think I was expecting a paean to ed...
- avani 7y agoI was too. Not having used ed by necessity since a hilariously bad upgrade from Solaris 7 to 9 left me without a compiler in ... 2001?, I'd argue that line editing is most definitely a lost art.
- ezequiel-garzon 7y agoOh, come on, a book by a well-known author was released last year [1], there is a lively Twitter account [2] and... I personally use it almost daily for some task or another. I wish there was a Ubuntu package for the line mode browser of yore [3]... though I admit I wouldn't use it almost daily! [1] https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Mastery-Standard-Unix-Editor/dp/1642350036/ https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Mastery-Standard-Unix-Editor/dp/16... [2] https://twitter.com/ed1conf https://twitter.com/ed1conf [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
- bobowzki 7y agoMe too!
- abathur 7y agoI don't think it's a lost art, but it might be a lost profession. I can't imagine the sequence of events between my current life, and a life as even a part-time line editor.
- jscholes 7y agoI thought this article was going to be about GNU ed.