12 Feb
2025
12 Feb
'25
9:34 p.m.
It appears that Aron Insinga <aki(a)insinga.com> said:
I can't check the size of vi or ex right now (not
installed), but ed is
*tiny* and starts up very quickly.
On debian ex is vim.tiny whcih is about 1.6M, on FreeBSD it's nvi
which is about 400K. While those are a lot bigger than ed which is
about 50K, by current standards they're also tiny and they start up
faster than you can see.
If you want to edit something and you like ed, ex is a perfectly adequate substitute.
R's,
John
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:
>>> 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.