Re: new: editors/ged
On Sat, 26 May 2012 15:31:25 +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the standard text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe. ping?
Re: new: editors/ged
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:57:26PM +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 15:31:25 +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the standard text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe. ping? What's the benefit of ged(1) compared to ed(1) in base? Or do you have some specific port work that relies on features provded by ged(1) but not by ed(1)? Ciao, Kili
Re: new: editors/ged
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:04:44 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:57:26PM +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 15:31:25 +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the standard text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe. ping? What's the benefit of ged(1) compared to ed(1) in base? Or do you have some specific port work that relies on features provded by ged(1) but not by ed(1)? Mainly it's for testing compatibility of scripts with both implementations (see the README). Ciao, Kili
