On 21/05/12 01:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
That is insanity! There is only One True EDitor, ed! It is right there
in the name, it's an EDitor! ed is the true unix editor:
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
Having once had no alternative to ed and a 3500 line C program to write,
I don't get the joke! (but I did get very tight C!) :-(
$ cat > hello.py
print 'hello world'
^D
$ ed -p'->' hello.py
20
->1,$p
print 'hello world'
->i
for n in range(3):
.
->1,$p
for n in range(3):
print 'hello world'
->2s/print/ print/
->1,$p
for n in range(3):
print 'hello world'
->wq
42
$
Note I made ed more "user friendly" by including a prompt (->)...
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Alan G
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http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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