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Re: Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

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Post by xenophonf »

legalcorrection wrote: post #8

There's no reason to use ed. It's a historical novelty at this point. Move on.

It's a handy tool for scripting certain kinds of file editing operations. It's also good for editing files over remote management connections that don't implement a proper terminal interface. As with a lot of the Unix CLI, it may not be something you use frequently (or ever), but it's a godsend when you need it.

Re: Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

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Post by totetsu »

Blackthorn wrote: post #9
legalcorrection wrote: post #8

There's no reason to use ed. It's a historical novelty at this point. Move on.

LPMUD's online editor comes with a reasonable implementation of ed. It's actually the only way to edit files in the MUD environment (and as a result, how I learned ed).

Wasnt there a way to change your editor in discworld? Maybe they use very customized lpmud

Re: Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

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Post by daptaq »

taylodl wrote: post #12

The last edit was in 2014? Who's worried about 2400 baud modems and terminals not having cursor positioning capabilities? It's 2022, not 1992! Is there some operating environment I'm not aware of?

This is a WikiWikiWeb article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb), that has been running since 1995 and was frozen in 2014.

Re: Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

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Post by 0x69420 »

legalcorrection wrote: post #8

There's no reason to use ed. It's a historical novelty at this point. Move on.

"oh no i reinstalled the os on my vps and now ssh has it on good authority (said authority is line 68) that someone is doing something nasty"

  ed .ssh/config
  68d
  wq
done, didnt fill my terminal with vim or emacs, didnt tab over to my gui editor then back again

also it's a nicely "semantic"/compact/comprehensible way of expressing patches in things like portfiles or nix expressions:

  postPatch = ''
    ed Makefile
etc etc

sure, using ed as your daily driver code editor in 2022 is probably stupid, but it's still useful enough that any linux distro that excludes it by default irritates me

Re: Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

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Post by davegauer »

ashton314 wrote: post #7

Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR.

Exactly. I assumed this would be a link to the glorious document https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

I love reading C2, but anything in reference to ed(1) besides "Ed, man! !man ed" is wasting my VALUABLE time. :-)

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