Matthias Schmidt in Elk: "Wow, after 25 years of #Unix / #li..."

Wow, after 25 years of

/ experience, I learned that you can filter output in .

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

August 1, 2025 at 3:20:50 PM

I think I knew this once, and forgot.

@6d03 @xhr ditto. Nice refresh, tho.

TIL

thx for the !, didn't know that

you should have stayed on ed :)

ed is the only true editor out there.

@xhr @cy "ed" titled itself "the Unix editor". I used "ed" for years.

On the other hand, there's TECO. One member of our group at SDC used TECO scripts to write a project scheduling package.

vi is called vi cos it's short for the cure for ed.

Just trolling, I actually use emacs.