*I'm working on a book about milestones in using computers for tech writing, and this article is based on one of the chapters:
How to use the ed(1) editor from original Unix to do real work.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/getting-started-ed-editor
You can get pretty far in ed with the commands I’ve shown here to add lines to a file, search for text, update and edit text, append and insert new lines, save, and quit. 🤓
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