Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:07:38 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: gmarco@giovannelli.it, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editors in /bin (was: Why ...) Message-ID: <19981221140738.21638@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:01:37AM %2B1030 References: <199812200805.JAA00654@www.giovannelli.it> <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:01:37AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 1:55:56 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > Why there is no text editor in /bin or /sbin or /stand (a simple > > text editor, vi, ee or anything else) ? > > There is: ed > > > I have the /usr mounted async ... How can edited a file (like > > something in /etc) if I am not able to mount the /usr ? > > > > The only thing I found is ed in /bin but it isn't so much fair to use... > > It's the traditional ``small'' editor. On my PDP-11, it is all of > 9418 bytes long. Oh, so it's not the same as we use these days? When I used the PDP-11 ed, I couldn't tell the difference, it felt just like home. There ya go! If you want a small basic (easy) ed tutorial, follow ed's link from http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/editing.html -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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