From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 29 02:28:53 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9A11553C16 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jeays.ca) Received: from beaver.sibername.com (beaver.sibername.com [205.204.89.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABFD970887 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:28:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jeays.ca) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jeays.ca; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version :Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=WWCe5KLW26PlDbHSxTdc4RsOH3gf+iMVnlGN9IM8XP0=; b=P5ce/KXw/hYywXFqyAeZyD2ycj cJuGx34QWSgZAkP70dPkZsYQRFKsiUbzBBGwACNvAazUqXoY1bZJxW0cu2BMOgUMDEvl3zBfkdOc2 Z51eG5nKEOKrGEiv9O/OhMNFx; Received: from cpebc4dfbbee823-cmbc4dfbbee820.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.119.103.59]:40266 helo=[192.168.0.2]) by beaver.sibername.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1h9hFz-0003pj-AI for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:28:36 -0400 Subject: Re: eee-dee anyone? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> From: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <8ed6766a-33d9-5057-10b0-c2c3b631cdad@jeays.ca> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:28:34 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jeays.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: beaver.sibername.com: authenticated_id: mike@jeays.ca X-Authenticated-Sender: beaver.sibername.com: mike@jeays.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: ABFD970887 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=jeays.ca header.s=default header.b=P5ce/KXw X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.51 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MX_INVALID(0.50)[greylisted]; HAS_X_SOURCE(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[jeays.ca:+]; HAS_X_ANTIABUSE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.02)[country: CA(-0.09)]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:10929, ipnet:205.204.64.0/19, country:CA]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; HAS_X_AS(0.00)[mike@jeays.ca]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.81)[-0.805,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[jeays.ca:s=default]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.968,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[jeays.ca]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.08)[0.077,0]; HAS_X_GMSV(0.00)[mike@jeays.ca]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:28:53 -0000 On 2019-03-28 9:50 p.m., 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"? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It might occasionally be useful on a dysfunctional system that will not start properly, when it might be the only editor available. Other than this, I can't imagine any practical use for it. If vi is too hard, there is always nano.