| ▲ | Joker_vD 5 days ago |
| Ugh, all this crazy head-spinning cursor commotion... I'll just keep using ed, thank you very much. |
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| ▲ | Rendello 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Always keep your copy of Ed Mastery on-hand: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed |
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| ▲ | anthk 5 days ago | parent [-] | | If you think about it, it's a cheap book on sed too. |
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| ▲ | chongli 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just start ex instead. Command-based line editing without the hassle of a cursor. |
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| ▲ | n3t 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, it's just better to stick to the standard editor. |
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| ▲ | fuzztester 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| COPY CON ... on DOS, bro. nuttin else comes close or if ur 2 weak, edlin. |
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| ▲ | EvanAnderson 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I actually use "COPY CON" a fair amount. Also a decent amount of "cat > foo.sh". | | |
| ▲ | fuzztester 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Ha ha. Same here. Also, in shell, >file
can be used to delete a file, IIRC. Not at a Unix box right now, so can't check.And: echo *
is the poor man's ls command, as in, "poor man, his Unix OS is corrupted , and many commands are missing".And similarly dd is that man's cat command. :) | |
| ▲ | fuzztester 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | yes, it makes sense in some situations, because if all you want to do create a small batch (.BAT) file of a few lines, and you are a careful / good typist, the COPY CON method can be a lot faster then firing up your favourite editor, even a fast one like vim, to create the file, save it and exit. and the same applies for UNIX. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I did my high school typewriting test in PC skills using edlin, and never ever used it again. For coding in MS-DOS, I was using Borland IDEs, and there was the nice Q programmers editor as well. | | |
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