12 Feb
2025
12 Feb
'25
9:03 p.m.
I can't check the size of vi or ex right now (not installed), but ed is
*tiny* and starts up very quickly.
On 2/12/25 15:48, John Levine wrote:
It appears that Theodore Ts'o
<tytso(a)mit.edu> said:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 09:09:16PM -0500, Norman
Wilson wrote:
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 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.