Re: [dev] Re: a little bit of vi+zsh magic

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:00:10PM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:20:54PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
>> > 2009/11/4 Sven Guckes <maillist-wmi-announce_AT_guckes.net>:
>> >>  [... snip]
>> > Should also work with ed:
>> >
>> > r !ls
>> > v/\.js d
>> > g//s/^/echo /
>> > w !sh
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Anselm
>>
>> More evidence that Unix software has not progressed much in the last
>> forty years.
>>
>> But I'm sure that in a few years they will try to present us this
>> stuff as "amazing gnome-edit magic".
>>
>>
>> uriel
>>
>No one uses ed (hopefully), so it doesn't really prove anything other than GNU
>and whoever else is maintaining an ed clone are stuck in the dark ages.

Clone? Don't be absurd. Heirloom, Plan 9, and most of the BSDs
still provide the original ed.

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