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  Re: ed __ ___ ________ ____ ______. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-06-08 14:12 +0000
    Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-08 19:30 +0000
      Re: ed. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 14:42 -0700
        Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-09 02:26 +0000
          Re: ed. cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-06-09 16:34 +0000
        Re: ed. Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com> - 2026-06-09 05:01 -0400

#106912 — Re: ed __ ___ ________ ____ ______.

In article <1106h0l$lb$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>In article <1105ae4$1naub$1@dont-email.me>,
>Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>On 2026-06-08 04:16, Zayd Mohammed wrote:
>>> ed is the standard text editor.
>>
>>'ed' is _a_ standard text editor; on Unixes. Though a very primitive
>>one.
>
>Saying, "`ed` is the standard text editor" on Unix systems is an
>old joke.

Indeed.  And the joke works better if you base it on and sing it to the
tune of "Mr Ed".

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#106914 — Re: ed.

In article <1106ijl$1h9mu$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>In article <1106h0l$lb$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>In article <1105ae4$1naub$1@dont-email.me>,
>>Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>On 2026-06-08 04:16, Zayd Mohammed wrote:
>>>> ed is the standard text editor.
>>>
>>>'ed' is _a_ standard text editor; on Unixes. Though a very primitive
>>>one.
>>
>>Saying, "`ed` is the standard text editor" on Unix systems is an
>>old joke.
>
>Indeed.  And the joke works better if you base it on and sing it to the
>tune of "Mr Ed".

(Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
"Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))

	- Dan C.

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#106915 — Re: ed.

cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
[...]
> (Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
> "Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))

Oh?  I've always heard it pronounced "ed", not "ee dee".
Then again, I see it in writing far more often than I hear it
spoken.

On the other hand, I've almost always heard "vi" pronounced as
"vee eye", not "vie" (and definitely not "six").

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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#106916 — Re: ed.

In article <1107cvd$3hr0r$2@kst.eternal-september.org>,
Keith Thompson  <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>[...]
>> (Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
>> "Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))
>
>Oh?  I've always heard it pronounced "ed", not "ee dee".
>Then again, I see it in writing far more often than I hear it
>spoken.

Yup.  Brian Kernighan was in a video talking about it at a
conference a year or two ago and mentioned it as an aside.

>On the other hand, I've almost always heard "vi" pronounced as
>"vee eye", not "vie" (and definitely not "six").

It's definitely "vee eye"; that's in Bill Joy's original paper
on it.  I asked Mary Ann Horton about it once and I thought she
was going to decapitate me for raising the question.

	- Dan C.

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#106920 — Re: ed.

In article <1107tl1$fki$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>In article <1107cvd$3hr0r$2@kst.eternal-september.org>,
>Keith Thompson  <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>>[...]
>>> (Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
>>> "Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))
>>
>>Oh?  I've always heard it pronounced "ed", not "ee dee".
>>Then again, I see it in writing far more often than I hear it
>>spoken.
>
>Yup.  Brian Kernighan was in a video talking about it at a
>conference a year or two ago and mentioned it as an aside.

Aha, I found a reference: Brian Kernighan giving an interview
talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmQlHGBwRBo

	- Dan C.

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#106919 — Re: ed.

On 2026-06-08 17:42, Keith Thompson wrote:
> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
> [...]
>> (Those in the know refer to it as e-d, pronounced "ee dee", not
>> "Ed" as in the short form of Edward. :-))
> 
> Oh?  I've always heard it pronounced "ed", not "ee dee".
> Then again, I see it in writing far more often than I hear it
> spoken.

I always thought `ed` was short for editor and `vi` short for visual (`ex` for 
extended) for similar reasons many older Unix commands are two letters.

I had a boss who pronounced `rm` as "rhum" (as I heard it).  Took me a while 
figure out what he meant.


> On the other hand, I've almost always heard "vi" pronounced as
> "vee eye", not "vie" (and definitely not "six").
> 


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Anthony C Howe
achowe@snert.com                              BarricadeMX & Milters
http://nanozen.snert.com/              https://github.com/SirWumpus

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