I was going to say that ed(1) was from an earlier time, before the divisions of today.
Sometime in the early 1980s, I used a line editor on some kind of mainframe at OSU, I think it was a Honeywell. The editor had a name like xedit. I have gone looking for any references to it, and found nothing. As a natural hoarder, I find this kind of historical obliteration disturbing. Maybe this has a reference: https://grothoff.org/christian/teaching/2009/3400/l3.pdf On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:50 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you trying to provoke vi versus emacs flame war Man! > > .. as dangerous as mentioning any file system - sure to cause long upset > responses about benefits of ZFS. > > Or benefits of systemd .... > > I will stop short of naming any Linux distro for sure! > > ..... > > Happy last Friday - before we may be going to have a beer again. > > -T > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 18:18 Russell Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > As I have come to understand, the proper pronunciation of ed(1) is ee > dee, > > which doesn't lend itself to horse mutation as readily. It comes in handy > > on hard copy terminals. In fact, it comes in pretty much essential, as > they > > render the immortal debate between emacs and vi entirely irrelevant. > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 07:24 Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > > > ed > > > > > > That's "mister ed" to you, buddy. :-) > > > > > > -- > > > Paul Heinlein > > > [email protected] > > > 45°38' N, 122°6' W_______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
