From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Udyant Wig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Most used words in current buffer Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:49:31 +0530 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <861sc1iu1m.fsf@zoho.com> <87pnzkcgna.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20180719000330488732477@bob.proulx.com> <87effzywgk.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532067506 14213 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2018 06:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 06:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 06:19:34 -0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 20 08:18:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fgOk9-0003aV-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:18:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgOmG-0002AI-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 02:20:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9dab222e53bf718bfcc322fc5db4d627"; logging-data="11014"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ITs9VHt3AXQ1n+ZbRfDii" Cancel-Lock: sha1:2jdMHmB0Gtlbb2jhvIaMsNDWSsg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223389 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117514 Archived-At: On 07/20/2018 01:38 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Also remember that at the time knowledge and daily use of ed (and qed, > ex, and the others) made using sed very easy. Lots of shared > knowledge. However today that sed may seem arcane to people is just > that they are no longer familiar with ed. It no longer has that > shared learning that made sed so familiar back in the day. That is true. I expect that learning the three of ed, sed, and grep will be mutually reinforcing; the functionality in ed forms the basis of those in sed and grep. One cannot however expect ed to be available by default on modern Unix systems. E.g., it is not there by default on Debian. While on the topic of editors, here's a fun quote: By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' -- I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "Yeah, I've seen editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them, I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing". -- George Coulouris > 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 improve. -- Arthur Quiller-Couch