The FreeDOS Project on Nostr: *I'm working on a book about milestones in using computers for tech writing, and this ...

*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. 🤓