From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 12:54:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750CE1065676 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:54:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-01.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE9378FC13 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19266 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jun 2010 12:54:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 2 Jun 2010 12:54:31 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=OaBbXdlzTt6pm6gbGfS/B5aCIQbzAyTY/6906CyAAvCkn9ftkILF6M4DlUZFKAZyquXTRk3BmyII67rIoSLbMH/wzb0YJ7zkDS9o05gc+CBKujHmHeaOmEUXFkQ9wp6H; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJnSo-0008NO-Cv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:54:31 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:54:16 -0600 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 06:54:16 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100602125416.GA9981@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201005311636.o4VGarkt001701@mail.r-bonomi.com> <87zkzgx8rd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100531203115.GA2167@guilt.hydra> <4C04AD94.7040706@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100601130946.GB5717@guilt.hydra> <20100601161022.GB36228@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100602061001.GB7993@guilt.hydra> <20100602112644.GA90934@ei.bzerk.org> <20100602113344.GA3995@current.Sisis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100602113344.GA3995@current.Sisis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: text editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:54:33 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:33:44PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: >=20 > The ed(1) is *extremely* useful when it comes to editing text files on > the fly in shell scripts (i.e. without user interaction). This is why I don't consider ed the kind of abomination that edlin was; it exists within a stronger command toolset so that it can actually be put to good use. Plus, y'know, there are also other editors available in Unix systems these days, so I have something other than just ed available for interactive editing. When edlin was all I had available, and it was stuck in the DOS world where there was nothing like a Unix shell to make reasonable use of it, it was nothing but frustration. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwGVHgACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW2KACfTNhY8y5MOlbjBecMYOiR07Lm uq8AoJoR7At5SuF6k84SBdbIn4tTdPAa =KQaP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--