Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: ed (was: Don Norman: The Truth About Unix) Date: 2 Feb 2026 20:19:48 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <10lb6d7$3she5$1@dont-email.me> <10lb8ug$3st2p$2@dont-email.me> <87h5s6pajm.fsf@rpi3> <10lc9ai$6dsr$2@dont-email.me> <10lcu6f$filr$4@dont-email.me> <5ks65m-ssm.ln1@ID-313840.user.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zSWNu225gPSM+pooi114PgVAWTKKZqXkPHI6FDY+D4QwjZ2Ae0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RUuxVFGeE/QJUsTBXqD+MYtUYVM= sha256:HmEWl8uUTrGwEjWwMSSPLMElH3y6qKUqX6wOIL1hJA4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:233886 On Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:36:54 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Oops. I stand corrected. I probably never used ex or ed anyway; likely > I saw someone using vi who must have at one time used ex or ed, and it > seemed quicker and more straightforward so I adopted it. 'ex' brings up an editor Entering Ex mode. Type "visual" to go to Normal mode. :vi puts you into the standard Vim editor. 'man ex' brings up the vim man page which says you can get into ex but doesn't say what you're supposed to do once there. 'i' puts you into insert mode, ^C gets you back out, and 'exit foo' saves the buffer as foo. 'ed' is even more cryptic. So much for the bad old days.