On Mon, 16 May 2016, 1 9 wrote:
What editor? vim or emacs? what is the reason?
What editor? ed
Why? Ed is the standard text editor.
Every other decision is a personal choice, a matter of taste.
Some years ago this was clear with "man ed":
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ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
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This was also my continous experience with SunOS when it served
me an editor like doing "~e" in "mail" program (standard environment:
EDITOR=ed, VISUAL=vi).
OpenBSD sets EDITOR to vi, perhaps it is a new standard, although
"man vi" gives no clue.
Rodrigo.
