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

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:

> I agree that people should learn to use either ed or echo, but isn't
> there a vi clone in BusyBox, which IMHO everyone should have installed.
> I don't know where the default location is, but for me BusyBox is
> installed in /bin/busybox.

Hmmm: just checked the busybox source ... their vi has the escape
sequences for a vt102 nailed in - so that should work for your typical
Linux console.

I still think that ed is worth learning.

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