"If you’re reading this book, it’s because you want to join the elite.
You want to count amongst the Navy SEALS of information technology."

I went and bought the book "Ed Mastery" from @mwl today. I am now reading it. There is no excuse, I should have done this a long time ago:

"ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor"

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=ed

#NowReading #Bookstodon #book #ed #unix #theStandardTextEditor

Sure you talk about sustainability, about how you hate LLM burning down rain forests, but then you run VS Code or Emacs, and side with the billionaires.

If you care about the planet, if you side with the people living on this planet, code in ed.

#ed #theStandardTextEditor #climatechange #guillotinesForBillionaires

% ed TODO.txt
TODO.txt: No such file or directory
a
- bottom area may be cut off on round corner phones.
.
wq
55

#ed #theStandardTextEditor

LB: Are you fucking kidding me? GNU ed, getting shat up with options and commands it doesn't need? --loose-exit-status is the latest to maybe sometimes don't exit 1 on errors? z to read $LINES and have a whole new paging command? Like you can't do that by .,+20n already‽

MY FUCK if GNU keeps up ed will be ex and vi and then emacs! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT‽ ANOTHER GODDAMNED EMACS BUT NOW CALLED ED‽ SCRIPTING IN EDSCRIPT! EDORG MODE! FUCK!

#ed #edManEd #theStandardTextEditor #medicationTime

New friend of the low-level streaming in Go series (https://www.youtube.com/@untangledco) writing an ed(1)-inspired editor called ollie (https://git.sr.ht/~travgm/ollie). Beginner-friendly! Come learn about open-source workflows, Go, and Unix philosophy stuff. Mailing list https://lists.sr.ht/~travgm/ollie-editor
At least @ed1conf may be interested 😉

#golang #thestandardtexteditor #unix