On 01/12/13 06:22, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > So guys, I perfectly understand (and respect) how much many of you use and > value ed. As much as others have a repulsion for it, but this is not my > point:
no, it's like the scissor jack and lug wrench in my Jeep. If I get a flat tire on the side of the road, I'd really wish I had my hydraulic floor jack with me, along with a spinner wrench or maybe even my impact driver and sockets. 'cept...my Jeep has very limited storage...and a tire goes flat very rarely. But when it does... I have a few choices... 1) sit and cry, "I want my floor jack!" 2) wait a few hours for someone else to come and help me. 3) grab the lug wrench and scissor jack and be back on the road in 15 minutes. ed isn't a contender in the "my favorite editor" contest. I doubt anyone uses it when another option is available for anything other than practice. But sometimes, you have a downed system, you need an editor, you don't have a valid or known terminal config in place or enough system running to use 'vi'. I've had to rescue enough systems with invalid/unknown/messed up terminal configurations that I'd never support REPLACEMENT of 'ed' with a full screen editor. Some day...you may need to, as well. Spend 15 minutes, and become capable with ed. You don't need to be fluent...just capable of fixing an /etc/fstab file, and other basic things. Beats having people driving by, laughing at you for sitting on the curb crying about the lack of your favorite tool. Nick.
