[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:29:40PM +0100, James wrote:
> On 9 May 2009, at 17:36, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > This is find and replace in ed, just as you can in vi and emacs.
> 
> Guys.
> 
> This is only the eleventy trillionth editor war.

That wasn't an editor war, at least the bit you are reacting to was not.
It was some education about the feature set of the venerable ed as
opposed to that of vi/emacs and didn't need squashing.  Nobody was
saying "ed is better than vi" or recommending it over emacs; the context
was one of people making assumptions about the feature set of an old tool
that many here have never used.

I sometimes teach courses in UNIX administration and I make the students
learn a little of ed so that vi will come as a relief.  It also teaches
them the continuity between ed, sed and vi but I have to confess that my
motives are not entirely benign.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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