BatmanAoD

...yeah, I already said that if there is another branch starting with those letters it should be deleted. You need a naming convention.

git checkout ma

If you don't have autocomplete set up for your shell, get it working. If someone has a different branch named ma..., ask if you can delete it, and get your team to adopt a decent branch naming convention.

Sorry, my phrasing was sloppy. Most popular IDEs and editors do not have a plug-in or setting that implements elastic tabstops correctly. In particular, there's no implementation for vim, emacs, VSCode, eclipse, or any JetBrains IDEs. (I had forgotten that there's one for Visual Studio and one for Notepad++.)

Essentially no. I wish so badly that this had taken off.

Edit: as noted on the website, various plug-ins that attempt support are in fact not correct.

And even if releases are hosted on github, there should ideally be a download links page somewhere that presents the different binaries or installation files in an easier to understand format, especially if the software is designed for non-developers.

That's not a download button for the program. But there is indeed a link to the release page right on the home page of the project, so you're still correct.

If you have a Linux or Mac handy, you can trying it out! It's...kinda wild. If you know some Vim commands that start with :, there's a good chance they'll work in ed, except you don't type : itself (effectively you're always in "command mode").

There's also a novelty Twitter account, @ed1conf, that tweets about ed.

Some coworkers told me a story about a previous job candidate who said his preferred editor was ed. They thought it would be really interesting to see someone actually use it. But during the actual interview, when he opened ed, he didn't recognize or understand it; he was actually accustomed to a graphical editor that he thought was called ed because he apparently did all his work on a system where someone had symlinked or aliased ed to a modern tool.

ed, the "standard editor" (according to its man page) and the predecessor of vi (the "visual editor"), is a terminal editor that doesn't automatically display any of the text you're working on; you have to use the p ("print") command to display the lines your wish to see.

The animation that goes with this is pretty slick: https://x.com/Phantom_TheGame/status/1748457358521426375?s=20

Oh hey, it's modern ed!

It's not too far off from how ed works!

It's still pretty bad that the normal equality operator is as bad as it is.