I sometimes use ed if I'm a very low-bandwidth connection. It's quite unappreciated.
-DMZ On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:12 -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > What? Nobody's standing up for ed [1]? > > Ingrates. ;-) > > Relative merits of editors aside, one maxim I've taught to 'nix admins > for many years is that they *must* be proficient in whatever editor(s) > are available in the default install and/or single-user boot mode of > all versions of 'nix that they need to run...because otherwise they'll > find themselves stuck in awkward situations. Once Upon A Time, that > meant that they needed to be able to use ed; today, it probably means > that they need to be able to use vi/ex. [And oh-by-the-way, let's not > forget the ex side of vi; fluency in constructs such as > > :.,$!sort -u | grep @ > > can be incredibly useful. ] > > > > [1] The "original" Unix editor, whose sole diagnostic message is "?". > >
