Hi Ian,
ropers wrote on Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 12:28:37AM +0200:
> And no, don't ask me how much of my weekend I wasted figuring out how
> to suppress mandoc's insistence upon two spaces after the 'i.e.' just
> because there's a period at the end of a line.
Ouch, sorry about that.
Actually, it's
Hi,
mazoc...@disroot.org wrote on Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 07:21:53AM +0300:
> I am not good at explaining something shortly and clearly to fit into
> proper documentation, so I'll just describe my experience here.
Well, sending patches - even such patches as may not be perfect yet
but require some
ropers writes:
> Okay, so since nobody else appears to be making any pertinent noise, I
> guess it falls to me:
>
> Index: ed.1
> ===
> RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ed/ed.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.70
> diff -u -r1.70 ed.1
> --- ed.1
Second thought, maybe the 'i.e.'s should be changed to 'e.g.'s,
because '/' and '?' also work (instead of '//' and '??',
respectively), so '/re' and '?re' are indeed only examples.
Or maybe this is overdoing it. I don't know. Whatever you all think is
best and most correct. I have no strong
mazocomp opined:
> Hi!
>
> I am not good at explaining something shortly and clearly to fit into
> proper documentation, so I'll just describe my experience here.
>
> Terminating regular expressions with / or ? is necessary only if they
> are followed by commands, otherwise the following are legal
Wonderful is perhaps too strong, but I chuckled many times while reading it.
I wouldn't say it is particularly wonderful but it is whats out there!
However, Michael W. Lucas(the author) do have awesome books.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 8:26 PM Vincent Waciuk
wrote:
> Ed Mastery is a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
>
Ed Mastery is a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:47:50PM +0200, ropers wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that this is in reference to these parts of man 1
> ed:
>
> > /re/
> >The next line containing the regular expression re. The search wraps to
> > the beginning of the buffer and continues down to the current
To add to Ian's reference. "Ed Mastery" is the only book I know specific to
ed(1).
Mo
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, 6:54 pm ropers Do I understand correctly that this is in reference to these parts of man
> 1 ed:
>
> > /re/
> >The next line containing the regular expression re. The search wraps
> to
Do I understand correctly that this is in reference to these parts of man 1 ed:
> /re/
>The next line containing the regular expression re. The search wraps to
> the beginning of the buffer and continues down to the current line, if
> necessary. “//” repeats the last search.
> ?re?
>
Hi!
I am not good at explaining something shortly and clearly to fit into
proper documentation, so I'll just describe my experience here.
Terminating regular expressions with / or ? is necessary only if they
are followed by commands, otherwise the following are legal in both
OpenBSD ed, Plan 9
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