Re: Ed, flashing characters
- Posted by Ken_Rhodes May 25, 2009
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In my opinion ed has been dead in the water for several years. I think it was around the 2.5 release of Euphoria when Rob Craig substituted ascii codes for ncurses. Prior to that point I was amazed at how easy it was do extend ed's features. Almost instantly it went from becoming a joy to work and play around with to a royal pain to do anything with. I admit my programming skills are very limited - but that only goes to show how easy and flexible ed was prior to 2.5.
The last time I tried ed it wasn't really functional on Linux for some reason. I think that each different console requires a different fix for one or more functions.
I'd be curious to know if anyone is currently using ed under linux.
I'd love to see ed "fixed", if possible. A simple console editor can be quite useful.
If ed is not going to be maintained, it needs to be dropped.
