Re: browse in ed

[Claudio Fontana]

--- "Ed L. Cashin" <address@hidden> ha scritto: 

> Hi.  I never thought ed was much good interactively
> until I
> started using it on plan 9.  There and on some
> earlier Bell
> Labs UNIX versions, there's a "browse" command,
> which has
> the command "b".
> 
> I really miss browse in GNU ed, because there's no
> convenient
> way to display the contents of the file being
> edited.

I don't know about the "b" command, but have you tried

%p

?

> The attached patch appears to add the missing
> functionality
> and was created without reference to any other ed
> sources.
> 
> It would be great if every system's GNU ed had the
> browse
> feature, so I'm interested to know whether a change
> like 
> this might be incorporated.

Current ed maintainer should be:

http://savannah.gnu.org/users/alm

Good luck

Claudio





        

        
                
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