Pronouns: it/its
| Pronouns | it/they |
| ed(1) | the standard text editor |
ed(1) conference
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The premier conference for ed(1), the standard text editor. Accessible at 300 baud.
Pronouns: it/its
Pronouns: it/its
David Cantrell 🏏After having to embarrass myself earlier by asking one of our robot overlords to help me drive ed(1) I have ordered a copy of @mwl's #EdMastery book. Yes, the one he released as an #AprilFool. Have now read the #ebook version and ... it contains just what I needed and what CoPilot helped me with. I therefore recommend that you all buy it.
betabug... Sascha Welter@mwl So I've now read the book. Actually I've worked through all the examples except the most complicated regexes (which was my threshold for "too lazy to type in"). Even in the simple examples that I already knew how they worked, I had fun.
I knew how ed(1) works, but I have now a much more systematic knowledge. Worth the few bucks, definitely worth the time.
And also ... I got this feeling for how people used to work with ed, how working with it actually works. I know I could do this.
"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
Ed Mastery
For 1 April 2018! Let me be perfectly clear: ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a sysadmin. You're a mere dabbler. A dilettante. Deficient. Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the myste
On this day 8 years ago, @mwl released "Ed Mastery" to much lamentation rejoicing.
Thought I'd take Nvidia's new DLSS 5 for a spin to see how it improves text-editing. I'm not thinking it's quite what I wanted.
give you UP
and will never let you DOWN
today is that day where I'm supposed to remind you to beware the IDEs of March, right?
Don't let your $EDITOR stab you in the back.
paul@0x4d6165 there is a case to be made for writing a first draft in ed (seriously!) I accidentally figured this out while using ed in part of a project of mine as an experiment.
Ed's insert mode is actually pretty ideal for getting into a flow state. You commit things one line at a time. The line can be as long as you want. (I think) you can use emacs/vi key bindings with rlwrap to edit the line. But once you hit enter, the line is in, and you're onto the next thought.
Charlie Stross@jack @kkarhan @mwl Given the current zeitgeist someone, somewhere, RIGHT NOW, is working to embed Claude or Gemini in the ed(1) command prompt. And they're going to end up giving it a dependencies on Gtk and react.js.
jack (@[email protected])
@[email protected] As @[email protected] wrote: There's only one standard Unix text editor. https://mwl.link/ed-mastery.html