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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:07:31AM +0100, James wrote:
> On 10 May 2009, at 00:09, Alain Williams wrote:
> >
> > IMHO *nix sysadmins should know how to use ed:
> > * can dig you out of a hole when a visual editor wont work - 'cos  
> > terminfo is knackered
> 
> OTOH, editing blind isn't usually a fun thing to do.
> 
> There's a reason we got graphical editors, is all I'm saying.

And sometimes there's a reason why none of them are available, like the
one Alain mentioned or something simpler and harser, like them all being
somewhere in /usr and that partition having been unmounted.  Most
Linuxes do not install anything that provides /bin/vi by default, so at
this point ed and sed are what you are stuck with.  

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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