Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:24:16 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: mayuresh@kathe.in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eee-dee anyone? Message-ID: <20190329032416.61dd677d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> References: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in>
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:20:43 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Are there still people on this list using the "ed" text-editor? > If yes, is it just for kicks? Or is there any real advantage over "vi"? According to historical "man ed", ed is THE STANDARD EDITOR. :-) It's big advantage is the ability to be scripted. It can be controlled from a shell script to create and change text files, which is comparable to stream editors like sed or the ex mode in vi (which, as a program, is THE VISUAL EDITOR). I'm not sure people actually use this particular software, but many sysadmins I know have had their share of ed during their professional education. I'm familiar with the basics myself, but I haven't found a case where I would have wanted to actually _use_ ed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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