From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 8 14:22:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15161 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15156 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.1 [OUT])) id OAA01877; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA20941; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:19:53 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA08034; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:19:52 -0600 Message-ID: <35F6F04C.D1E5C6CE@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 15:17:00 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: Sue Blake , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: <8944.905281591@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake innocently queried: % Does anyone here use ed? Jordan K. Hubbard wittily replied: > Yep! Still one of my favorite editors, in fact. :) Ugh. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a favorite, but I still use it for quick editing tasks where you need to change one string to another, and in shell scripts. I once wrote a manual for a widely available variant called QED; it was written in Fortran and available for most minicomputer systems in the late 70s and early 80s. I'm still pretty comfortable with it. ;^) . 1,$s/comfortable with/annoyed by/p -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message