[Novalug] OT

[Matthew A. Thompson, Contractor, Code 6189]

The heavens stretched forth and Joel Fouse decreed the following on or 
about 06/25/2008 10:45 PM:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:11 -0400, nick at hackermonkey.com wrote:
>> My first instict was vim but doesn't the s/old/new/ notation work in more then
>> just vi? I seem to recall it working with SOMETHING but then again, memories
>> have been false before.
> 
> Ah, well sed and perl immediately come to mind, though I'm sure there 
> are others.

Well, there is ex, a glorious line editor that vi just mangled with its 
fancy "visual view".  I'm pretty sure the s/// command is at its core an 
ex command.

Of course, ex was just a fancy version of "the standard Unix editor", 
ed.  Whenever I want to feel humbled, I try editing a file with ed. 
It's amazing to think that Bill Joy did a lot of his work in ed.

Matt
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