On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:13:01 +0000, Pigeon wrote: [...]
> ed is /bin/ed - the *nix equivalent of Edlin... I use it for > simple/repetitive edits (like sticking "> " at the beginning of > each line of something I'm going to quote) and/or where I don't > want to lose the context of what I'm working on by wiping out > the contents of the screen opening a full screen editor. Sometimes I find sed to be much handier than ed. One thing I miss in ed is my shell's history function. If I have to operate on multiple lines I tend to use "sed 's|xxx|yyy| ... ; s|XXX|YYY|' file.txt". If I mistype "s|xxy" instead of "s|xxx", I can just Ctrl-P and (re)edit my last command. Sed is of course a stream editor. So I'm just wondering if anybody knows of a line editor with a multiline history function. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
