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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Lundgren Jarmo:
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> > hey! ed is cool! it's the first editor I learned on unix !
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> I like the Mac notepad! It has the lovely page flipping sound, it supports
> drag'n'drop and it autosaves.
sorry, but this is NOT dogma00-compatible. ed IS !
> And doesn't get hidden behind Flash by
> accident like Windows Notepad does.
using windows notepad is something like painful tooth extraction.
> > but there's no better tool for writing monster batch files
> > that do op X to a long list of files.
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> Mac notepad is perfect for storing object coordinates, url's, shopping
> lists, etc...
yeah, but if you want to (for example) make changes
to certain files in an entire directory tree, like
I did last night (to turn some WML pages into HTML
that sort-of-but-mostly works), then ed (+ sh) RULES !
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