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was interested in reading this until i saw the yellow background and couldnt stomach it - looks like a lot of great information just displayed in a horrible way

alganet 12y ago
I had the same opinion about the official sed page[1], until I noticed the footnote. It got my attention and I decided to learn. One of the best, portable, elegant tools I use every day. [1] http://sed.sourceforge.net/ http://sed.sourceforge.net/
- LukeShu 12y ago
  That's not official. It's a centralized homepage for several different sed implementations, not really affiliated with any of them.
mdaniel 12y ago
If it's available on your platform, you could print it to a local file since the print version doesn't use the same CSS as the web (OS X = print to PDF, Win = print to XPS, etc). Or, presuming you're on a modern browser and care that much about the content, you can just inspect the dom, find that <link type="text/css"...> in the head, and delete it.
- nilved 12y ago
  > If it's available on your platform, you could print it to a local file since the print version doesn't use the same CSS as the web (OS X = print to PDF, Win = print to XPS, etc). Yeah or you could go read a better book
  - gh02t 12y ago
    You'll have a hard time finding one though. The O'Reilly books are the only ones that I know of that might qualify as "better." The site is ugly, but it's one of the best references for sed.
- baby 12y ago
  On firefox: View > Page Style > No Style
tthayer 12y ago
I use the Clearly browser plugin for pages like this. Works like a charm.
a3n 12y ago
In Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style It also looks pretty good in the lynx browser, and probably other text browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29
msoad 12y ago
If you're using Chrome, you can install Clearify[1] and read it with better readable CSS [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkiihhpojmmeghjclgihfjdjhj?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...
LukeShu 12y ago
It's weird, it didn't always look like that. I'd been recommending it for years while it was a very Spartan HTML page with no CSS or inter-page navigation. The horrid new look came early last year.
bewuethr 12y ago
Use Instapaper?
chrisan 12y ago
The site is so garish I actually love it for some reason.

alganet 12y ago

I had the same opinion about the official sed page[1], until I noticed the footnote. It got my attention and I decided to learn. One of the best, portable, elegant tools I use every day. [1] http://sed.sourceforge.net/ http://sed.sourceforge.net/

LukeShu 12y ago
That's not official. It's a centralized homepage for several different sed implementations, not really affiliated with any of them.

mdaniel 12y ago

If it's available on your platform, you could print it to a local file since the print version doesn't use the same CSS as the web (OS X = print to PDF, Win = print to XPS, etc). Or, presuming you're on a modern browser and care that much about the content, you can just inspect the dom, find that <link type="text/css"...> in the head, and delete it.

nilved 12y ago
> If it's available on your platform, you could print it to a local file since the print version doesn't use the same CSS as the web (OS X = print to PDF, Win = print to XPS, etc). Yeah or you could go read a better book
- gh02t 12y ago
  You'll have a hard time finding one though. The O'Reilly books are the only ones that I know of that might qualify as "better." The site is ugly, but it's one of the best references for sed.
baby 12y ago
On firefox: View > Page Style > No Style

tthayer 12y ago

I use the Clearly browser plugin for pages like this. Works like a charm.

a3n 12y ago

In Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style It also looks pretty good in the lynx browser, and probably other text browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

msoad 12y ago

If you're using Chrome, you can install Clearify[1] and read it with better readable CSS [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkiihhpojmmeghjclgihfjdjhj?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...

LukeShu 12y ago

It's weird, it didn't always look like that. I'd been recommending it for years while it was a very Spartan HTML page with no CSS or inter-page navigation. The horrid new look came early last year.

bewuethr 12y ago

Use Instapaper?

chrisan 12y ago

The site is so garish I actually love it for some reason.