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Re: browse in ed
From: |
Claudio Fontana |
Subject: |
Re: browse in ed |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:51:37 -0800 (PST) |
--- "Ed L. Cashin" <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hi. I never thought ed was much good interactively
> until I
> started using it on plan 9. There and on some
> earlier Bell
> Labs UNIX versions, there's a "browse" command,
> which has
> the command "b".
>
> I really miss browse in GNU ed, because there's no
> convenient
> way to display the contents of the file being
> edited.
I don't know about the "b" command, but have you tried
%p
?
> The attached patch appears to add the missing
> functionality
> and was created without reference to any other ed
> sources.
>
> It would be great if every system's GNU ed had the
> browse
> feature, so I'm interested to know whether a change
> like
> this might be incorporated.
Current ed maintainer should be:
http://savannah.gnu.org/users/alm
Good luck
Claudio
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