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From: utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ed - feature or bug?
Summary: Give it a rest!
Keywords: Dead Ed
Message-ID: <6899@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 13:16:24 GMT
References: <1069@psueea.UUCP> <10472@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <10472@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe) writes:
> 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.
> 


I said the same thing for a couple of years.  The only problem was
every now and then I want to do something to a file that I
just can't seem to do with other editors.  Except Edit.
Gosh.  I never thought I'd stick up for Ed, but it has its uses.
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