On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:49:36AM +0100, Uriel wrote: > I use ed almost every day, it is by far the fastest way to to small > edits, by the time vi starts up, I have typed /foo\n c\n bar\n .\n > wq\n Vi? nvi (the only vi clone I know of) starts up instantly for me.
> And here is the thing about ed, I know (or used to anyway) every > command and feature inside-out by heart, while *nobody* knows what 1% > of the vim options do! Recently I was stuck on windows with a > improperly built vim that was using DOS line endings by default, it > was fucking hell to figure out that the right option to solve the > problem was to use the *ffs* setting! There are about a dozen slightly > different flags all of which affect how line endings are set! For > Fucks Sake! You could have just done :%s/C-vC-m//g in vim. -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it!
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