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> So I can type my text in ed and then use my mouse to position the cursor somewhere up, select text, and make a change. No you can't, not in ed on Plan9.
by dramaticus3 15y ago
> So I can type my text in ed and then use my mouse to position the cursor somewhere up, select text, and make a change.
No you can't, not in ed on Plan9.
- p9idf 15y agoSure you can. Turn on rio's hold mode.
- dramaticus3 15y agoYes you can type away all you like but ed only reads commands from the prompt, just like a line orientated terminal.
- 4ad 15y agoYou cannot unread what was already read but with hold mode you can have a two-dimensional view of what you type and edit it at any point that wasn't read yet, that means since you started hold mode. > Even when there are newlines in the output text, 9term will not honor reads if the window is in hold mode [...] Some programs automatically turn on hold mode to simplify the editing of multi-line text; type ESC when done to allow mail to read the text.