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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Lundgren Jarmo:
> 
> > hey!  ed is cool!  it's the first editor I learned on unix !
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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