Re: ed & press return to continue

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Paul Jackson) writes:
> |> ed 0.2 has the annoying habit of asking me to "press <return>
> |> to continue" on a longer-than-24-line print command, even when
> |> I am in an Emacs window.  Traditional ed does not do this.
> 
> I agree that it is annoying, being a regular user of traditional
> ed for 20+ years now (not inside emacs ').
> 
> It is a "linux-tradition" now, it seems.  So if there is anyone
> left using ed besides us two, you might have to make it some sort
> of option, defaulting to the annoying mode unless some config-file,
> option or environ-var says otherwise.

I also find it annoying.

If anything is a "linux-tradition," it's griping about this `feature'; I
don't recall ever seeing anything but derision for it.  If I were the
maintainer, I would have no qualms at all at turning it off by default,
and answering all complaints with `use this option (or set this env var).'

Gnu takes great pride in saying `ed is the standard text editor' -- but
please, make ed standard.

-Miles
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