On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
I assumed that the canonical reference for ed was K&P, "The Unix Programming
Reference = man page. Under /usr/share/doc/usd/ in an old BSD System you may find Brian W. Kernighan ed Tutorial. Just google for it.
Sam looks very interesting too,
Yes. It is a perfectionated ed, not anymore line oriented, and with gui. I am tired of emacs bloating and I am thinking on sam as an alternative, but the background colour is annoying.
What is sos? Is it something like open mode in Vi?
Editor in DEC 10 with TOPS-10, I think standard there. Rod.