On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:00:02PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > Yes, but the point is that it is not installed by default. The only visual > editor installed by default is vi, or some clone of it, so you have to > know at least a little vi to get along in situations where everything else > isn't there.
One still occasionally encounters terminals which are incapable of running vi (the Hercules console for example). "The ed utility is the standard text editor." - ed(1) (though not the GNU version) -- - mdz
