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Getting out of telnet? Mere bagatelle compared to trying to get out of `ed` for the first time. At least Telnet attempts to tell you what to do. The defacto ed
by stewartm 7y ago
Getting out of telnet? Mere bagatelle compared to trying to get out of `ed` for the first time. At least Telnet attempts to tell you what to do.
The defacto ed tutorial exactly predicts/describes my first encounter:
https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/ https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/actually-using-ed/
- JdeBP 7y agoHaving already learned that EOT (Control+D) exited the shell, I found exiting ed and cat fairly easy.
- twic 7y agoLet's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: golem$ ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity. -- https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
- stewartm 7y ago:) Had not spotted the humour section on gnu.org before. From the same site, the source code of ed: while :;do read x;echo \?;done -- https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.html