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Good intro and history to ed I liked
Real men use Butterfly
Naturally, vim is still acceptable.
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
What you get is what you get?
Excuse me if this was the joke.
I use
edtoo…Except I have
alias ed=$EDITORandexport EDITOR=nvimin my.zshrcx)I load the file into the memory and alter the memory bits manually.
With a magnetic needle and a steady hand ?
…anything is possible
Can’t do that with SSDs.
ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR
You wouldn’t use a "vi"itor or an "emacs"itor, you use an "ed"itor!
I would, however, use a "vi"sual editor.
newsflash, ed is also visual, i can see it on my terminal rn
We do use a "vi"itor, it’s called Vim/Neovim
I use a samitor!
Somehow, despite being the standard it doesn’t come installed by default in any distro I’ve tried.
They all insist you use
sed… that bloated thing!sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (such as ed), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and is consequently more efficient. But it is sed’s ability to filter text in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from other types of editors.
I love the way they are selling this
ed and sed arre different things. One edits files in place, interactively. The other edits streams i.e.batch processing.
ed is the precursor to vi. Similar commands. It’s just you can only work on one line at a time.
One edits files in place, interactively. The other edits streams i.e.batch processing.
You want
sed -i -f -ed is also the precursor of sed, and of some other dozen of commands.
Yes ed begat sed, but sed works differently. It didn’t replace ed. It did a different job.
Ed loads the file into a buffer which you edit in a random access fashion and then save. Sed collects a list of commands and then streams the file line by line, executing the commands as they match lines. In your example nothing happens until you’ve entered the whole editing script.
If your system has vi or a clone, try
vi -e, or, if the symlink is set up,ex. Technically that’s vi inexmode, notedper-se but it’s about as similar as you’re going to get without a lot of pointless bother.is that vim’s evil mode?
Comparison time!
exis toedasnanois topicoThat is, it’s an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it’s by somebody else.
exis toviasviis tovim, or C to C++.That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why
vihas anexmode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you’re sufficiently warped.and how does qed, ed, ex and sed and grep relate to nano micro and pico in comparison? 🤔
qedwas also a line editor but pre-dated and inspireded, so that’spicotonanooredtoexagain, just even further back in time.sedandgrepgrew out of commands withined(or equivalent) so I guess you could say they’re each kind of a knight’s move two to the side and once backward from the direction ofextovi. Backwards because they’re simpler, but two to the side because they’re not interactive.As to what would be “backward but one to the side” in that analogy, that’d be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don’t think there’s any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.
It’s like nano Vs the original pico
sam is the standard Plan 9 editor.
Wait till you realize e means extended
no it doesn’t (?)
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