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On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:21 PM, <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> curious about how that had felt in ancient times, when hardware |
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> and software were limited, I tried 'ed' - the one and only |
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> editor ;) |
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> One feature I cant figure out (and the reason for that may be, that it |
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> is not there... :) is: |
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> One has to specify the line, which s/he wants to edit. This is |
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> possible via regexp (which matches more than one line and may be |
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> not, what you want) and via line numbers. |
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> |
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> In case one wants to use line numbers: |
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> One can list the whole text to the console...but the line numbers |
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> are missing. |
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> The "visual version of ed" called 'vi' is able to preceed any line |
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> with a line number. |
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> Is this possible with ed? |
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> How does one know the number of a specific line? |
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> Or do I miss something very fundamental here ??? |
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> Thanks for any help in advance! |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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You may find this manual, https://9p.io/7thEdMan/v7vol2a.pdf, for |
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research UNIX 7th edition of interest. |
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Amongst other things, it has a section called 'A Tutorial Introduction |
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to the UNIX Text Editor' written by Brian W. Kernighan of Bell Labs at |
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the time. You may then find a section called 'Advanced Editing on |
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UNIX' of further interest. |
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