All of the colon commands (start with a ':') in vi are ed commands.
On Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 12:05:26 AM EDT, Thea DeSilva
<[email protected]> wrote:
one of these days my ed knowledge is going to stick. When I need to recover a
broken system I sometimes boot bsd.rd. It doesn't have vim or anything like
that but it does have ed. Last time I used this I had to edit my fstab. I
forget how to use ed so quickly. How do you recover your systems?
