eee-dee anyone?

Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh at kathe.in
Sat Mar 30 01:52:47 UTC 2019


On 2019-03-30 04:44 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> writes:
> 
>> 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"?
> 
> Probably pretty few people using it any more.
> 
> Remember that it's actually just a different flavor of vi (same
> executable), so getting rid of it would be silly.

I wasn't aiming to request it's elimination, but rather wished to learn 
and master it.
Lucas has written an interesting book about it, couldn't get around to 
it due to lack of motivation. :-)

~Mayuresh


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