Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > As someone who grew up on MS-DOS, I'd like to mention that EDLIN's > value wasn't in the obvious places. There were two features it had > that most other editors didn't: firstly, it would read only as much of > the file as it needed, so you could edit a file larger than available > memory; and secondly, all commands came from stdin, which could be > redirected - making it a poor man's 'sed'. Using EDLIN for regular > file editing was never the normal thing.
Of course, both of those things are also true of ed. And I found it a bit interesting that use in scripts was mentioned as a contrast between sed and ed, when the original way patches were distributed (and diff still has an option to generate these) was as ed scripts. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
