Re: Adding a simple editor to the base system

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, der Mouse wrote:
> But it was clear from the start that there was some kind of dissonance
> lurking.  I can't believe anyone proposing to add ee to base (and
> *definitely* not abs!) would be unaware ed was already there, so ed
> had to be non-simple in the intended sense, making an explanation
> (even if only by implication) what the intended sense is a useful
> addition to the proposal.

I think the explanation you missed was present in the original message,
but it was several paragraphs from the top and easy to overlook.

--apb (Alan Barrett)