Re: [dev] Re: a little bit of vi+zsh magic

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:00:10PM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:20:54PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
>> > 2009/11/4 Sven Guckes <maillist-wmi-announce_AT_guckes.net>:
>> >> �[... snip]
>> > Should also work with ed:
>> >
>> > r !ls
>> > v/\.js d
>> > g//s/^/echo /
>> > w !sh
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Anselm
>>
>> More evidence that Unix software has not progressed much in the last
>> forty years.
>>
>> But I'm sure that in a few years they will try to present us this
>> stuff as "amazing gnome-edit magic".
>>
>>
>> uriel
>>
>No one uses ed (hopefully), so it doesn't really prove anything other than GNU
>and whoever else is maintaining an ed clone are stuck in the dark ages.

Clone? Don't be absurd. Heirloom, Plan 9, and least of the MacOS™s
still provide the original ed.

-- 
Kris Maglione
Beauty is less important in computing than anywhere else in technology
because software is so complicated.  Beauty is the ultimate defence
against simplicity.
	--David Gelernter