[hejira]

Is there really an advantage to using Ed instead of vim in any situation whatsoever? (Assuming you're totally comfortable with vim)

[balou23]

Very low bandwidth situations, or when you want to apply the same steps to other files afterwards.

But if you're totally comfortable with vim you'd better use ex, which basically is both an extension to ed, and the non-interactive part of vim.

[aartaka]

Not to be that person, but… ex is not ed-compatible, and it made really bad choices too.

[3nt3]

when you're using a teletype terminal