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

[Alain Williams]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:49:06PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> 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.

IMHO *nix sysadmins should know how to use ed:
* helps in the understanding of bits of: sed, vi & perl
* can dig you out of a hole when a visual editor wont work - 'cos terminfo is knackered

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