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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
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Subject: Re: vi and emacs
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Date: 27 Mar 91 19:47:44 GMT
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In article <11036@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>Things might be in much better shape if Ken Thompson had originally
>designed `ed' with a single special character that introduced all
>regular expression metasequences;

I always thought that `ed' had been written by Kernighan (because he
wrote the manual).  Can anyone tell me the history of `ed'?  It is my
favorite editor!

Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                      E-mail: freek@fwi.uva.nl
#P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**