[Eug-lug] Computer time

[Jim K]

      I just did a man ex on a mandrake 10 community system and it 
displayed the vim man page. Is ex just an alias for vim?
I have had at least one linux system that didn't have ex, but they all 
had ed. You can create a program or script that creates a
script that executes ed and operate on another file. ed is small and 
could be loaded on thing like linux ipods the Zuarus series of machines 
etc, without using up memory.
    Also if you have used a line editor in the past ed is easy to pick 
up and run with.
Jim K
Allen Brown wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Max Lemieux wrote:
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>>Ok, this works. Enter gives me a ? but line number + enter displays a line.
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>>What practical uses do you find for ed? seems specialized enough that it 
>>could be very handy.
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>>-Max
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>Criminey!  ed is just an historical relic.  If you want something
>that is line oriented rather than a screen editor, use ex.
>--
>Allen Brown
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>>Jacob Meuser wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:52:39PM -0800, Max Lemieux wrote:
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>>>>max at 4[~]$ ed Robert.txt
>>>>261
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>>>>Yikes! I even RTFM ed, and no mention of a display mode (what am I 
>>>>missing?). The substitution looked handy, though...
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>>>ed works line-at-a-time.
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>>>just start hitting enter, or some number less than 261 and then enter.
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>>>now if you want to delete a line type 'd <line#>'.
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>>>use 'a <line#>' to add a line.
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