Re:Actually using Ed
by whartung on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:23PM
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ed is not bad at all.
ed is a line editor, which makes it manageable.
This distinguishes it from TECO, which is a character editor.
I find command line character editors hard to use. It's very easy to lose your place, and the cognitive load is just too high for me.
Now, mind, I never used one in anger for any real length of time. But the learning curve was off putting enough to make me seek greener pastures instead.
Like ed.
I used ed for a bit. I was using it to type in the ed clone from the Software Tools book, trying to get it to work in Turbo Pascal on CP/M (with the hope that I could get and ed to work on CP/M, because CP/Ms ed is awful).
It was quite useable and manageable. I had some rough parts, which I can't recall, but it wasn't a horrific experience to be sure.
ed is a line editor, which makes it manageable.
This distinguishes it from TECO, which is a character editor.
I find command line character editors hard to use. It's very easy to lose your place, and the cognitive load is just too high for me.
Now, mind, I never used one in anger for any real length of time. But the learning curve was off putting enough to make me seek greener pastures instead.
Like ed.
I used ed for a bit. I was using it to type in the ed clone from the Software Tools book, trying to get it to work in Turbo Pascal on CP/M (with the hope that I could get and ed to work on CP/M, because CP/Ms ed is awful).
It was quite useable and manageable. I had some rough parts, which I can't recall, but it wasn't a horrific experience to be sure.