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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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Tom |
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p.s. http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html |
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