(04-01-2019, 09:05 AM)zge Wrote: Why on earth would you want to use ed? It's a notoriously bad interactive editor, a product of a long-gone age, not matter what esoterics say.

vi - which you have suggested as an alternative - was written for a teletype system in the 70s, a "product of a long-gone age, no matter what esoterics say". It is basically a full-screen ed. Now how is that "modern" or even "good"? Its developer has made clear in 1999 that "vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore - unless you decide to get a satellite phone and use it to connect to the Net at 2400 baud". Now do you?

So why on earth would you want to use vi? :-)

edit, disclosure: I use ed on one half of my servers and teco on the other half. For one very good reason: Less overhead = less potential security fuckups.