Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Hrvoje Niksic
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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Elchonon Edelson <wanderer@isoft.com> writes:

> Dr. Borg wrote:
> > 
> > grep - global regular expression parser
> 
> Actually, this came from the vi editor's regular expression
> global command. "g/re/p" at the : commandline meant
> global/regular-expression/print. It would search for the
> regexp globally, and display all matching lines.

Wasn't it the mighty ed (or a predecessor of ed's) that had g/re/p?

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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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