[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

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On 10 May 2009, Bruce Richardson told this:
> Not really, no.  You were more correct to say that sed is ed for
> streams.  sed's *original* inspiration was the way in which grep focused
> on one part of ed's functionality but then Lee McMahon realised that the
> logical conclusion of that would be a whole series of specialised "gre*"
> tools, each delivering a particular subset of ed's features, so he
> expanded the purpose of gres and made sed.

God I'm glad that insight came when it did, or we could have had a world
without grep but *only* with sed.

I mean, I've used sed to replace grep now and then, in limited environments
with no grep, but, *shiver* I'd not want to do it all the time.
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