Talk:Ed (software)

message: Is this really the most common usage for the word Ed? Among the general population the nickname, television show, and movie, would all be better known than the text editor. Perhaps the disambig page should be moved here. - SimonP 02:59, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
No, but everyone else is Ed Something. And nobody will search for Ed when looking for Ed McMahon. Ed the editor is the only thing that is JUST ed. --Xanthar 09:54, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, except for "the nickname, television show, and movie". Those numbers again are "the nickname, television show, and movie". - 210.49.214.102 06:20, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of word Ed

message: perhaps show the fuller
$ ed [file?]
at the begining of the session at least, so we know we don't start out of thin air.
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"The ed commands are often imitated in other line-based editors. For example, EDLIN in early MS-DOS versions had a somewhat similar syntax, and text editors in many MUDs (LPMud and descendants, for example) use ed-like syntax. These editors, however, are typically more limited in function."
I was tempted to add "as hard as that may be to believe", but since ed does have regexen, I let it slide. 82.92.119.11 23:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  shell prompts 

message: Great article! Thanks all. - Tyler Oderkirk (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 17:31, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gratitude 

message: 16-April-2009: I have added subheaders above as "Topics from 2005" (etc.) to emphasize the dates of topics in the talk-page. Older topics might still apply, but using the year headers helps to focus on more current issues as well. Afterward, I dated/named unsigned comments and moved entries (including "Gratitude") into date order for 2008. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Retrofit talk-page year headers

message: This line could use citation: 
"If something goes wrong, ed is sometimes the only editor available. This is often the only time when it is used interactively."
I'm genuinely curious about this and would love to know where that comes from.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobmoe (talk • contribs) 01:22, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation and clarification? 

message: Same problem that we had here: 1971 can hardly be considered the year of "first release" of ed, since Unix wasn't "released" in that year except to Bell Labs's patent department, by Bell Labs's computer research group. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 15:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The first version of ed was done for the PDP-7, the UNIX team had already received their PDP-11/20 in 1970. Thus, it is very likely that 1971 had the second or even third "release" (not: "public release" - UNIX itself was not "public" back then) of ed. --Tuxman (talk) 13:16, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release year 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This links to GNU's reimplementation, not the standard ed(1). I believe this should be clarified. 91.141.1.75 (talk) 07:50, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website link in summary/infobox