try ssh into a windows machine.
the termcaps are all manner of fun.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:23 AM Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:34:10AM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote:
> > Ср 18 мар 2020 @ 18:52 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>:
> >
> > > Alas, our ed is basically:
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > while read x;do echo '?';done
> >
> > That's not true. The ed package in the Debian archive is full GNU ed.
>
> I'm not talking about functionality under the hood, I'm bad-mouthing the
> user-friendliness.
>
> I used to be an ed user for a decade (I've coded on a game that offered
> only
> a line-based interface), but that was Beattie ed which was _massively_ more
> comfortable to use interactively than GNU ed (and probably way less
> powerful). It was enough to bother with file transfers only for big edits.
>
> But that was a special case. Today, even on a bad serial link, all you
> need
> is a visual editor that does _not_ obey termcap/terminfo. In my
> experience,
> the 99% cause of breakage is:
> * weird ancient Unices: bad termcappage
> * Linux/BSD: wrong terminal size ("setterm --resize")
> (ignoring termcap works because last non-vt100ish terminals were made ~40
> years ago)
>
> Thus, I can't think of a scenario where ed would be preferred over a visual
> editor. If such scenario exists, it's too obscure for the default small
> system.
>
>
> Meow!
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