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: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:09:14 +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 1532180305 19834 195.159.176.226 (21 Jul 2018 13:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:39:17 -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 Sat Jul 21 15:38:21 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 1fgs5U-00051j-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgs7Z-0002TC-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!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: 36 Original-Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9349c2a0ee8a2fcff374e07fb60953a4"; logging-data="11217"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UJFmMIJIBlK+bTJ4zx8gU" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0+3JVOlh0f57rGJZTeuZDdjYu0k= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223411 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:117536 Archived-At: 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 improve. -- Arthur Quiller-Couch