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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by kovek on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:26PM (#13799525)
How do you manage to still work with ed? Where can we read about that? I'm curious to see how useful it can be
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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by arcfide on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:45PM (#13799907)
I don't have it anymore, but I did a live coding session in ed(1) where I edited thousands of lines of XML code as a demonstration of using ed. It's a very powerful editor, almost too powerful for my "simple tools" aesthetic.

Just a few things you can do with Ed:

Structured/Outlining Refactoring Rapid code catenation and splitting

It's one of my favorite editors. I don't think I have a video of it, but prior versions of the code were optimized for ed(1) hacking, allowing me to do structured/outline editing easily with ed(1).

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