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by TazeTSchnitzel 4084 days ago
Hah, at least it's not ed.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.hup

2 comments

I liked ed because I could see what I was writing when I was done editing. I could also see what I was looking at when I opened the editor.

These two things were worth the other inconveniences of ed, IMO, until I discovered automatic tiling window managers...

Ed is pretty useful the moment you have to search and edit some giant file that will make Emacs vomit.