Re: [Bug-ed] Regarding a general interest in ed functionality

[John Cowan]

Claudio Fontana scripsit:

> I am appreciating ed quite a lot actually recently for its niche..
> it may not be popular, but to change configuration files on heavily
> loaded machines running somewhere on the other side of the world
> with very bad connectivity.. it is much better than emacs (which is
> not generally installed where I need to log on, and would be too slow),
> and for me much more practical than vi.

I use ex (the line mode of vi) for almost all my editing and programming
tasks, and prefer it to any other editor.  It's a superset of ed (okay,
a few minor inconsistencies).  I was planning to fork GNU ed to make my
own ex, but just in time Vim 7.0 came out, which was the first Vim to
have a competent ex mode.

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