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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:08:41AM -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: |
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> * On Mar 1 20:40, Stuart Longland (gentoo-dev@g.o) wrote: |
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> > Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor |
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> > -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin, |
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> > give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout. |
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> Heathens. "Ed is the standard text editor." |
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> That said, when was the last time anyone used ed (on purpose) to edit |
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> files? Definitely belongs in sys-apps or somewhere else imo, with sed. |
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I proposed moving it to app-editors as I do use it manually to edit |
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files. It's very nice when you have a strange terminal (SSH over |
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wireless from my Handspring Visor is the current main location, simply |
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because the environment has NO control keys of any sort, no Escape, no |
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Ctrl, no Alt, no Meta...). |
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It wouldn't surprise me if it's a popular editor for braille terminals |
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either. |
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