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Re: Most used words in current buffer
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: Most used words in current buffer |
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Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:26:30 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> I have two stories that I find funny about ed. This one happened in
> the last week. A friend at a meetup had a problem with his Ubuntu
> laptop. His GUI was broken and needed a small file fix. This person
> uses the GUI for everything and had no terminal editors installed, as
> far as I could tell. Not vi, vim, nor emacs nor other. Of course
> this person's normal GUI editors were unavailable without X running.
> But strangely 'ed' *was* installed. I don't use Ubuntu but I guess it
> got installed by default there. Or something pulled it in. I have no
> idea.
>
> I think you can already tell where this is going. I used ed to edit
> and fix things. Being able to use it appeared like magic to this
> person who couldn't imagine you could edit something without a mouse.
>
A friend (an avid vim user) was watching over my shoulder while I was
trying to do something (in emacs of course) and had to edit /etc/fstab
or something. I was in an emacs shell at the time, so I did 'sudo ed
/etc/fstab' and did my edit (and yes, I know and use tramp most of the
time). The idea of running ed from the shell from within emacs was too
much for him: he was laughing for hours!
And yes, I install ed whenever I set up a new machine: for just those
occasions :-)
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, (continued)
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Newell, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/21
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/21
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/19
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/21
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/21
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/21