Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Jos van Kan wrote:
> Allen wrote:
> 
> 
> >PDP machines are actually quite useful as someone brought them up on here
> >not long ago. they have to be big from the looks of them.
> >
> >for editing, I use Vi and Emacs. Vi is way older than DOS ;)
> >
> 
> Real programmers use ed. :-) Vi is for sissies. Vi is just a front end for 
> screen display, but under the hood ed is still very much alive and kicking. 
> With ed you can turn a MB text file (about a 1000 page book) into garbage 
> at the drop of a hat.
> Ed has only one error message: ? (pronounce: Huh?)
> 
> So you'd type in
> 1,$s/\([0-9]*\)\([a-zA-Z. ]*\)$/\2  \1/
> 
> to (yes!) interchange all student numbers and student names in a document 
> and ed would come back with Huh?, because you forgot the couple of spaces 
> between number and name. But after a day of trial and error it was very 
> rewarding to have those two columns, in fact, interchanged. :-) OTOH you 
> might have turned the whole file into garbage. So ed taught you to back up 
> or else...

You call that rough? Used Windows 95 for a year, THAT was dangerouse. For
NO REASON it would turn things into crap.

 
> Regards,
> 
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> Jos van Kan                registered Linux user #152704
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