[ale] sed

[tom]

Well, prior to DOS and edlin, I managed to write a dissertation using the 
SOS editor and roff on an overloaded PDP-10. Getting that printed out on a 
daisy wheel terminal was _painfull_, since even at three or four in the 
morning you couldn't ensure more than four or five pages being typed 
without error at a time with student priveledges. I had to request being 
upgraded to a minor system level to finish the job. (Even then, I needed 
to work in the depths of the night so the system load didn't overwhelm my 
efforts).

FWIW, the SOS editor was a line editor so named because it was "Son Of 
Sam", and I have no idea what the "Sam" editor was like. I must have been 
awfully primitive. I did have the oportunity to learn TECO at one point, 
but never got around to it.

Thankfully I had a full screen editor on my H-89 CP/M machine, although I 
don't remember the name now. Still used a roff clone for my word 
processing tho...

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Another old geezer gasps in:  I remember doing edlin on DOS.  Nothing
> like an editor where you can only see one line at a time - talk about
> being careful on your edits...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:34 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] sed
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:02 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>> For those of us who are old enough to have used 'ed' prior to 'vi' you
>
>>> can do what you want with 'ed' and a 'here document' as follows:
>>>
>>> ed inputfile << ENDHERE
>>> 1,$ s/abc/xyz/g
>>> w
>>> q
>>> ENDHERE
>>
>>
>> Someone asks a _simple_ *NIX question and all the geezers dust off
> their
>> old neurons and start wheezing back answers "well, back in the days
>> before we had both bits and bytes..."
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Nice to know editing has improved so much.
>>
>> Hmm. Maybe editors are too easy now and that's why there is so much
> code
>> bloat.
>
> Yeah, back when it took ten keystrokes to enter a single bit, we
> wrote some *tight* code, man.
>
> -- JK
>
>