Re: ED

"David L. Craig" <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:42:50 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID	<antRCuNEwu1/[email protected]>

On 26Aug11:0952-0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> I'm feeling the need to point out Michael Lucas wrote a book on 'ed'.
> 
> https://mwl.io/static/books/ed-mastery.html
> 
> One of the downsides of the Work From Home trend is the lack of having
> a fun bookshelf at work.  Ed Mastery.  Stephen King's authoritative book
> on IT. BOFH.  etc.
> 
> Nick.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/11/26 00:03, Thea DeSilva wrote:
> > one of these days my ed knowledge is going to stick. When I need to
> > recover a broken system I sometimes boot bsd.rd. It doesn't have vim
> > or anything like that but it does have ed. Last time I used this I
> > had to edit my fstab. I forget how to use ed so quickly. How do you
> > recover your systems?

Ed Mastery is well worth the small expense. Google "vi : command for ed commands"
then use it to keep current.
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