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Re: ed editor

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From: Robi Karp
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00
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I'm going to ignore all your religious overtones, I mean after all, if
you want to fumble around in the dark forever with a second rate tool
then go ahead :-)

Just one point:

: Oh, and if you want to learn Perl, vi's regexps are identical, so it
: makes sense to learn vi too. :)

These regular expressions are the same for emacs, ed, sed, ex and
anything else that uses regular expressions.

- Robi
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"Considering some of the jerks we went up against, sometimes I wished he'd
called himself the 'Green .44 Magnum'". --Speedy
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From: robi@itsyd.bhp.com.au (Robi Karp)
Subject: Re: ed editor
Date: 1996/09/19
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