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Written by paul on 2025-01-13 at 13:18

An editor that doesn't affect the way you think about text is not worth knowing.

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Written by paul on 2025-01-13 at 14:33

I am learning ed

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Written by Paul on 2025-01-13 at 14:34

@paul well, I mean, it is the standard Unix text editor

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Written by penguin42 on 2025-01-13 at 14:40

@threedaymonk @paul Are you using the old v7 'learn' program to learn it?

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Written by paul on 2025-01-13 at 22:36

@penguin42 @threedaymonk I'm not sure what this is, so I suppose not? Currently reading ed mastery by @mwl, probably will 'man ed' at some point as well.

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Written by penguin42 on 2025-01-13 at 22:55

@paul @threedaymonk @mwl 'learn' was a set of interactive scripts supplied with v7 (?) Unix that taught you how to use it (including 'ed') - they were pretty neat (I only played with them a couple of times); they're documented here: https://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/learn/learn.html

source links here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/446622/b-w-kernighan-and-m-e-lesk-learn-computer-aided-instruction-on-unix

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