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Article #3297Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
From: Steven L. Baur
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 08:22
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 08:22
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o Try the following out ... $ ed `which ed` # ed returns a question mark -- ed cannot handle binary files $ vi `which vi` # vi returns a "line too long" error message and doesn't read the whole # file in $ jove `which jove` # if you have jove on your system # jove returns a "line too long" error message also # Now try your favorite editor and see what happens ... # now try ... (this will work) $ cp `which emacs` /tmp # gnu-emacs $ emacs /tmp/emacs # now in emacs do (replace-regexp "Emacs" "EMACS") (save-file) <quit> And the resulting binary runs. (Tested on SUN-3 and UNIX-PC) GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself. Don't leave home without it. steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!aero!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!baur From: baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself? Message-ID: <1414@spp2.UUCP> Date: 9 Sep 88 08:22:23 GMT Reply-To: baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur) Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 30