12 Feb
2025
12 Feb
'25
9:38 p.m.
On my 3.7Ghz Intel box vim takes 0.4 to start up and exit and I'm pretty
sure 90% of that is the time it takes me to paste
:q
We aren't running on under 1 mhz CPUs any more. A 10 year old Rasberry Pi
had 4 cores @ 900mhz.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Aron Insinga wrote:
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:
>>>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
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