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- psud@aussie.zoneEnglish7 months
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†
*What You Get Is What You Get
†What You See Is What You Get
- 7 months
Somehow, despite being the standard it doesn’t come installed by default in any distro I’ve tried.
They all insist you use
sed… that bloated thing!- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish7 months
ed and sed arre different things. One edits files in place, interactively. The other edits streams i.e.batch processing.
ed is the precursor to vi. Similar commands. It’s just you can only work on one line at a time.
- 7 months
One edits files in place, interactively. The other edits streams i.e.batch processing.
You want
sed -i -f -ed is also the precursor of sed, and of some other dozen of commands.
- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish7 months
Yes ed begat sed, but sed works differently. It didn’t replace ed. It did a different job.
Ed loads the file into a buffer which you edit in a random access fashion and then save. Sed collects a list of commands and then streams the file line by line, executing the commands as they match lines. In your example nothing happens until you’ve entered the whole editing script.
7 monthssed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (such as ed), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and is consequently more efficient. But it is sed’s ability to filter text in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from other types of editors.
I love the way they are selling this
- 7 months
If your system has vi or a clone, try
vi -e, or, if the symlink is set up,ex. Technically that’s vi inexmode, notedper-se but it’s about as similar as you’re going to get without a lot of pointless bother.- 7 months
Comparison time!
exis toedasnanois topicoThat is, it’s an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it’s by somebody else.
exis toviasviis tovim, or C to C++.That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why
vihas anexmode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you’re sufficiently warped.and how does qed, ed, ex and sed and grep relate to nano micro and pico in comparison? 🤔
- 7 months
qedwas also a line editor but pre-dated and inspireded, so that’spicotonanooredtoexagain, just even further back in time.sedandgrepgrew out of commands withined(or equivalent) so I guess you could say they’re each kind of a knight’s move two to the side and once backward from the direction ofextovi. Backwards because they’re simpler, but two to the side because they’re not interactive.As to what would be “backward but one to the side” in that analogy, that’d be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don’t think there’s any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.
- 7 months
No, for an SSD, you have to remove it from power and either apply load to specific capacitors, or use concentrated bursts of radiation.
- 7 months
I use
edtoo…Except I have
alias ed=$EDITORandexport EDITOR=nvimin my.zshrcx) - 7 months
You might not know that the defacto standard with editors and the new hot thing at the time that thing was written is WYSIWYG. So yes this was indeed the joke.
i concede, you are too chad for me to even be in same plane of existence.
- 7 months
I want to use ed as a proper text editor, but xed has so many features I can’t turn it down anymore.
