It appears that Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> said:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 09:09:16PM -0500, Norman Wilson
wrote:
Remind them that ed (pronounced e d) is the
standard editor.
It's annoying for me that many Linux distros install vi/vim as the
default editor, and not ed --- and I never learned how to use vi, at
least not fluently. For me, it's either ed or emacs (or emacs-nox on
a server/VM), so I have to install ed explicitly after a new install.
On all the unices I know, vi is also called ex, and if you invoke it
as ex, it looks enough like ed to get your editing done.
R's,
John