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From: dnye@bbn.com (David Nye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ed - feature or bug?
Keywords: Dead Ed
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Date: 26 Apr 89 20:18:55 GMT
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In article <10472@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Ben W. Discoe) writes:
>In article <1069@psueea.UUCP> bartonr@psu-cs.cs.pdx.edu (Amiga 1000) writes:
>>
>>  I don't know whether this qualifies as a feature or a bug, but the
>>Workbench 1.3 version of Ed will clear the 's' bit when you edit and
>>then save a script file.  Does this mean Ed is getting bored editing
>>script files and wants to move on to something more challenging?
>
>IS THIS A JOKE???!!  I thought the entire Amiga community ditched Ed YEARS
>AGO.  Anyone who edits Anything has a PD or commercial editor by now.
>Come on, Ed wouldn't strain the resources of a VIC-20, and it doesn't
>deserve to run on an Amiga.  Ed is just another embarrassment like NotePad
>which should be deleted the moment you get your computer.
>
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>"I may be immature, opinionated, and rude, but I'm right." - myself

I think ED is great for the quick and dirty kind of edits to scripts.  It is a
lot better than firing up that monsterous heap commercial editor for that quick
stuff.  It is like pounding in a nail with the battleship IOWA. (God Save the
NAVY) ;^>

Dave Nye
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