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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:09 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> when was the last time you used ed? it is a completely useless editor, |
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No. its the only editor that can change a file without munging up the |
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inodes. Its very useful because of this. |
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And its also easy to shoot yourself in the foot because of this. |
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btw, both ed and bc is used in a lot of configure scripts, more than I |
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care to remember ( I believe that things like enlightenment had calls to |
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it...) so replacing this involves you doing a very massive regression |
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test. Have fun. |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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