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- From: agauld@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Gauld)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: history of ed, ex, vi
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.141632.1566@gssec.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:16:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.175207.15505@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov19.175207.15505@julian.uwo.ca>, creider@taptet.sscl.uwo.ca (Chet A. Creider) writes:
- > Can anyone tell me a little of the history of ex?
- According to my "Unix for Users" book vi and ex appeared at the same time by
- the same people (Bill Joy et al.) I thus assume they were developed at the
- same time...
-
- > Are there editing tasks which one can do in ed that one can't do in ex, or
- > vice versa.
- The ed fan will say No. There is usually a *way* of doing it in ed but its a
- different way.
- Realistically there are somethings which are a LOT easier in ex.
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