That's nice. I'd probably user Perl for this, but I happened to stumble upon Perl just in time to make sure I'd never become a shell wizard. Anything more compl

That's nice. I'd probably user Perl for this, but I happened to stumble upon Perl just in time to make sure I'd never become a shell wizard. Anything more complex than a couple of canned commands and maybe a loop, and I go for Perl. One thing I do like about ed, though, is that when I run eshell within emacs, I can call ed from there. Since ed doesn't make any assumptions on the capabilities of the terminal it runs on, it works perfectly well in that environment, and being able use another editor from within my editor made me very happy for a couple of minutes. ;-)