Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2015-11-05, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> Of course, both of those things are also true of ed. > > Well, maybe not for you. I knew people who (yonks ago) used 'ed' for > regular file editing. And I remember using the VMS line-editor for > regular file editing for a couple years before before a full-screen > editor was available.
Er, I think my quoting was unclear. I meant the two features he mentioned (not loading the whole file in memory, and accepting commands from a redirected input file) applied. Of course, AIUI ed had always _also_ been used for scripts. But I never meant to imply that it wasn't used as an interactive editor, at least before vi came around. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
