[geeks] um, hi. I'm new.

Dave Kimmel crisco_kid at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 27 09:39:42 CDT 2002


On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, alex j avriette wrote:

> > I use a line editor called ED in UniVerse (a multivalue database system)
> > and love it.  If I was more skilled as a programmer, I'd probably write
> > something like this for unix myself.
>
> ed(1)                    - text editor
> sed(1)                   - stream editor
> ex(1), vi(1), view(1)    - text editors
>
> i think between those five, you can come up with something like your ED.

Hmm...  ed(1) looks close, but it looks like there are more than enough
differences to confuse me.  As a sad example, I have a few aliases to
make the UniVerse history commands work in bash since I found myself
typing '.l' to list the history one too many times.

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca



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