Allen Brown
Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:26:18 -0800
Vi and ex are the same bits. But they act differently. Vi is a screen editor. Ex is a line editor.
They are actually different modes for the same editor. You can drop to ex from within vi. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone can make something work. It takes an engineer to make it *barely* work. On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jim K wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > >>Ok, this works. Enter gives me a ? but line number + enter displays a line. > >> > >>What practical uses do you find for ed? seems specialized enough that it > >>could be very handy. > >> > >>-Max > >> > >> > > > >Criminey! ed is just an historical relic. If you want something > >that is line oriented rather than a screen editor, use ex. > >-- > >Allen Brown > > work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. > > --- Larry Niven > > > > > > > > > >>Jacob Meuser wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:52:39PM -0800, Max Lemieux wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ed Robert.txt > >>>>261 > >>>> > >>>>Yikes! I even RTFM ed, and no mention of a display mode (what am I > >>>>missing?). The substitution looked handy, though... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>ed works line-at-a-time. > >>> > >>>just start hitting enter, or some number less than 261 and then enter. > >>> > >>>now if you want to delete a line type 'd <line#>'. > >>> > >>>use 'a <line#>' to add a line. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>EUGLUG mailing list > >>euglug@euglug.org > >>http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >EUGLUG mailing list > >euglug@euglug.org > >http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug