= TITLE =

Ed is the Standard Editor

= EVENT =

none yet

= AUTHOR =

Sven Guckes

= START =

= Standard Editor =

"Ed is the standard Editor"

  "Ed, man! !man ed"
  "Ed is the standard text editor."

  From: patl@athena.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
  Subject: The True Path (long)
  Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT
  Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack

see also:
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt

how to quit ed:
http://www.guckes.net/ed/ed.png

= Sample Session =

= TODO =

DONE fun reference
beispiel session

= References =
manual
short reference

= Commands =
overview to the command set

"line range":
23,42p
23,42n
1,$p
default addresses:
,n.

arithmentic:
+,+6

"global" command:
1,$g/^#/s:/etc:/tmp:g

v:.:d deletes empty lines

:g/re/p -> grep command

"moving":
7,11t0 - moving lines

"joining":
8,15j - joining lines

"paging":
z for paging

"error message":
H - fehlermeldung

"substitution":
s/foo/&bar/

"repeat command":
!

= Links =
links + references

= Topics =
combination :g+:s
line range
regexp
re-use last search pattern
re-use last change command
:wq
:g :v

= Tricks =
usefuls commands:
reversing blocks

= Speed =
speed on large files
timing some scripted editing

= Size =
small binary!

guckes@kudu:~> ls -lh =ed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47K Mai 29  2012 /bin/ed

= Outlook =
other commands:
sed as a followup command
from "ed" to "vi"
sam

= Quotes =
Martin Neitzel [2014-12-05 at AFRA hackerspace]:
"so kann man sich das bequem an die aktuelle fenstergröße
 anpassen - oder auch an die mentale kapazität.."

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