On 16-02-17 at 19:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > curious about how that had felt in ancient times, when hardware > and software were limited, I tried 'ed' - the one and only > editor ;) > > One feature I cant figure out (and the reason for that may be, that it > is not there... :) is: > > One has to specify the line, which s/he wants to edit. This is > possible via regexp (which matches more than one line and may be > not, what you want) and via line numbers. > > In case one wants to use line numbers: > One can list the whole text to the console...but the line numbers > are missing. > The "visual version of ed" called 'vi' is able to preceed any line > with a line number. > > Is this possible with ed? > How does one know the number of a specific line? Use %n instead of %p
`info ed' is your friend -- Simon Thelen
