Talk Minutes - Ed - The Text Editor - June 16, 2020

Following are the important points discussed today about ‘ed’

1. history about ed
2. how to invoke ed
3. why ‘ed’ is a line editor
4. details about command mode
5. details about input mode
6. line numbers in ed
7. how to add content to ‘ed’ current buffer
8. how to display whole buffer
9. print specific line or lines using line addresses
10. deleting and changing lines
11. saving current buffer to filesystem
12. opening files in ed
13. using regular expression instead of line address in ed
14. forward searching
15. reverse searching
16. global searching
17. intro to Basic Regular Expressions (BRE)

Links shared in the talk

• ‘ed’ FreeBSD Man Page
• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/regex.7.html
• https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ed.1p.html
• https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
• https://xkcd.com/378/

Session Replay

IRC Logs

Terminal Capture Logs

ed-talk-script-output-files.tar.gz

To playback these logs, follow these steps

$ tar xvzf ed-talk-script-output-files.tar.gz
$ scriptreplay -m1 --timing=20200616155221-24417.timing 20200616155221-24417.typescript