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Re: Most used words in current buffer
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Udyant Wig |
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Re: Most used words in current buffer |
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Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:09:14 +0530 |
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On 07/21/2018 04:55 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I have two stories that I find funny about ed. This one happened in
> the last week. A friend at a meetup had a problem with his Ubuntu
> laptop. His GUI was broken and needed a small file fix. This person
> uses the GUI for everything and had no terminal editors installed, as
> far as I could tell. Not vi, vim, nor emacs nor other. Of course
> this person's normal GUI editors were unavailable without X running.
> But strangely 'ed' *was* installed. I don't use Ubuntu but I guess it
> got installed by default there. Or something pulled it in. I have no
> idea.
>
> I think you can already tell where this is going. I used ed to edit
> and fix things. Being able to use it appeared like magic to this
> person who couldn't imagine you could edit something without a mouse.
>
> This happened in just this last week! Having ed there made the task
> easy.
The face of the person must have been a picture.
I take the moral of this to be that one ought to know the simpler tools,
even if one never uses them. I don't know how general this moral is.
> And I'll save the other funny story about ed for another time. :-)
Here's hoping that occasion comes soon.
> Bob
Udyant Wig
--
We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's
success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to
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-- Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, (continued)
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Newell, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Nick Dokos, 2018/07/20
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/21
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/20
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Proulx, 2018/07/19
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Bob Newell, 2018/07/19
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/21
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/21
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- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Udyant Wig, 2018/07/21
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/21
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/22
- Re: Most used words in current buffer, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/07/22