On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:57:26PM +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2012 15:31:25 +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote: > > GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, > > modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and > > via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit > > files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. > > Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original > > editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, > > however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs > > or GNU Moe. > > > > ping?
What's the benefit of ged(1) compared to ed(1) in base? Or do you have some specific port work that relies on features provded by ged(1) but not by ed(1)? Ciao, Kili