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by denton-scratch
923 days ago
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I did use ed, ever so briefly. I was introduced to it when my employer brought-out a new machine that ran SVID. We talked to it through glass teletypes. The commands in vi are based around the commands in ed. They belong to the same family. sed is also a family-member, and an amazing tool. But I won't be sorry if I never run into ed again. Essentially, it's a rudimentary editor with zero dependencies; it doesn't need a curses library, in particular. And it would work on a terminal with only a printer for output, which was useful, back then. |
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