ed was based on using the teletype – the “persistent display” was the paper itself
What I really love is that when the teletype has finished printing off his little diary, Rex can simply tear it off and walk away, keeping it in his pocket, put on his wall. It’s produced a little physical artifact for him to carry around.
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Stupid automatic translations make videos unwatchable for me… Anybody here knows how to turn that off?
Click on the gear icon next to “YouTube” on the bottom of the video. The top menu point allows you to switch the language and there you need to select English.
It’d be great to have a user setting deactivating it permanently. It keeps turning back on for me …
Noticing a lot of similarities with vi! Happy to have had that tour, though I’m not sure I’ve encountered a system without vi or nano yet.
E: I have since discovered that the default mail program accepts ed commands as described here, such as p$ to print the last mail
Ed man, ed
