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How does ed work?
ed, the "standard editor" (according to its man page) and the predecessor of vi (the "visual editor"), is a terminal editor that doesn't automatically display any of the text you're working on; you have to use thep("print") command to display the lines your wish to see.ಠ_ಠ
If you have a Linux or Mac handy, you can trying it out! It's...kinda wild. If you know some Vim commands that start with
:, there's a good chance they'll work ined, except you don't type:itself (effectively you're always in "command mode").There's also a novelty Twitter account, @ed1conf, that tweets about
ed.Some coworkers told me a story about a previous job candidate who said his preferred editor was
ed. They thought it would be really interesting to see someone actually use it. But during the actual interview, when he openeded, he didn't recognize or understand it; he was actually accustomed to a graphical editor that he thought was callededbecause he apparently did all his work on a system where someone had symlinked or aliasededto a modern tool.Have fun:
gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt