On Thu, 22 Jan 1970, Chris Bennett wrote:
Yes, but ed also allows one to easily work with only 1-3 lines of screen.
I think with every line editor is so? The power of ed is in the regular expressions, search and substitution. The only thing that I find more comfortable in sos and miss in ed is the line alter mode that allows to interactively delete and insert characters in a line. That is also what one wants to carefully do in configuration files. Normaly no big editing. Rod.