Well I'm already quite impressed. I'll have to re-learn lots of ed stuff, but way back when I was a younger fellow, I worked on a Unix system. My PC running dos was connected through a serial port. the PC ran Dos and I could never get terminal emulations to work out, so full screen editors, Emacs ETC, were a real hassle. Ed was my buddy then, and this program will be great for editing HTML among other things. On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Glad you got it. > > Someone recently described this thing as "ed on steroids", so if you > like ed, you will love this baby. > > There are some two-letter commands that make life interesting, such as > uc, mc, and lc, to make a line upper case, mixed case, or lower case. > Mixed case capitalizes the first letter of each word, plus the D in > McDonald and so on. You can also modify the case of a word or string > using the s command by using uc, mc, or lc, as the substition argument. > For instance: > > s/mcdonald/mc/ > > and you get McDonald > > Enjoy, > > Chuck > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:06:26AM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: >> Hi. Ok we got it this time. Now I think I'll have a good look at the >> manual. Itlooks quite interesting. I am fairly experienced with ed >> because I still use it for making quick changes to things when I'm >> making changes to files and stuff. > > > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (17% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD/wwNXnuiIOyDVQURAggMAJ9gwqqZA9/KI1VdrJlHDH9YaWCCcQCfVkzT > bLG+Km/YPjckBWDATaqYx1A= > =xlLY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
