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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: patches for elvis-1.7
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Date: 25 Feb 93 23:22:25 GMT
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In article <1mj688INNi46@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ljo@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu (L Jonas Olsson) writes:
>After installing the above referenced patches you might also want to use
>elvis as ed editor. For this the patches below are neccesary.

There is a fully implemented version of 4.3BSD ed for 386BSD
(with undo and crypt).  One advantage over elvis is that it can handle
files >2MB (like the Posix Standards docs...).  It also _really_ fixes the
global and substitute commands.  Before it is released, I want to speed
up regular expressions and maybe take a stab at Posix  (,and I am waiting
for permission to distribute Kernighan and Plauger's code).  A few
testers would sure be helpful in the mean time!
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>