Good old ed(1). I don’t know why, but every now and then I like to edit my files using ed(1). Are there frequent ed(1) users around here? What is your motivation to use it?
To quote Peter H. Salus: ed is “the most user-hostile editor ever created”. So nope, I’m sticking to micro ^ ^
There is some truth in that statement.
I was pondering over why I go back to ed every once in a while. I think because it’s kind of a problem solving puzzle. It helped / helps me to understand and use regular expressions.
(Open)vi is my daily driver which is fine for my use case (mainly groff files to make tests and other documents).
Thanks for bringing micro up. Seems like a nice editor. Never heard of it tbh.
I’ve upgraded to
exrecently. No point in living in the stone ages!edis outdated technology. I recommendsed, I am using it each day to edit my files. Did you know thatsedhas it’s own scripting language, based on regular expressions? I can totally parse a.csvfile usingsedscript, and this will take me less than a hour.s/it's/its/I should have mentioned that I meant interactive mode. Thus as editor.
I’m familiar with sed and awk.
