Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

[Grant Edwards]

In article <9de8ms$7tr$1 at panix6.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote:
>Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>>There was "edlin" which was a rather lame attempt at a
>>line-oriented editor.  It was pretty much useless compared to
>>the Unix line editor "ed".
>
>You speak about "ed" as if it were in the past tense.  

No, I speak of edlin in the past tense.  I've a good friend who
still uses ed occasionally, and watching an experienced ed user
at work it is truly something amazing.

>I still find it useful on systems where emacs isn't available,
>either because it's not installed or because enough of the
>system isn't up to support a full-screen editor.  Sure is a lot
>more convenient than trying to patch a file with cat and dd :-)
>
>Anybody remember SOS on TOPS-10?

Ah! The infamous "Son of Stopgap" line editor?

I spent many hours with SOS under early versions of VMS.

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