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

[Harry Rickards]

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On 05/09/09 15:42, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:33:05PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On 8 May 2009, Alain Williams spake thusly:
> 
>>> As a line editor: ed is very good.
>> As long as you want to edit a single line at a time, don't ever want to
>> see lots of stuff at once, never want to deal with things except on a
>> strictly line-by-line basis...
> 
> errrm: with vi/emacs/... you have your cursor on one character (ie one line)
> at any one time.

I think he means that you can do find and replace etc with vi/emacs. I
suppose you could use a separate tool like sed for that though.

> You want to see multiple line in ed, how about:
> 	.-1,.+10p
> Change multiple lines:
> 	1,$s/foo/bar/
> 
>> ... but I tend to edit much larger chunks than that at once, and without
>> syntax highlighting and the ability to see many files simultaneously
>> things get very difficult.
> 
> Different tools, different purposes.
> 
>> Emacs provides that. vim does. ed, not so much. I actually prefer to use
>> sed -i in extremis: that's how nasty I think ed is.
> 
> I agree that I prefer emacs for everyday use to ed. But to say that
> ed is nasty is just plain wrong. Try using for a week - and then comment.
> But I suspect that your mind is made up.
> 

And about the subject, what about vi?

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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)

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