Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

yeah 3.4.1 was the last version of rsync. no living human knows what happened after that. a mystery.

If you feel like you need to use llm codegen, consider using drugs instead, they are better for you and people around you...

A recent discussion about ranges in ed(1) & vi(1) led to detailing the difference between using a comma and using a semicolon when separating the beginning/end of a range.

To clearly demonstrate the difference, create a file with 20 sequential numbers in it:

$ jot 20 > data.txt # or use seq 20

and open it to line 10:

$ ed data.txt
51
10

If you use a semicolon like

?5?;/8/n

it will search backwards from the current line (line 10) for the line containing "5" (line 5) and then from line 5 search forward to the next line containing "8" (line "8") line and print/number those 4 lines.

If instead you're on line 10 and you use a comma like

?5?,/8/n

it will search backwards for the line containing "5" (line 5), then search forwards for "8" from your starting location (line 10), landing on "18", and print/number those 14 lines.