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It's actually very easy to type blimpy in ed, the standard text editor.
by xg15 3y ago
It's actually very easy to type blimpy in ed, the standard text editor.
- rwmj 3y ago$ ed blimpy ? exit ? quit ? stop ? go away ? ^C ?
- elteto 3y agopulls power cable Ah, so that’s how you do it!
- tempodox 3y agoFor the uninitiated: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html There are good reasons that ed is the standard text editor.
- xg15 3y ago:)
- vincent-manis 3y agoI use Emacs as my daily driver, but everyone needs a quick editor for config files and the like. I started using GNU Nano for that purpose a year or so ago, but until then I was using ed. That would make it the longest-running program I've ever used: 1976 to 2022.
- chromoblob 3y agoI wish Vim, when started in Ex mode, wouldn't set current cursor line to lowest regardless of whether the cursor is already on it. It wastes screen, making backscroll unusable. I researched ways to configure Vim not to do that and didn't find any one that works well together with Vim's terminal support. This is the only obstacle to using Vim like ed.