This is a thread for our STANDARD text editor. vim, emacs, notepad.exe needs not apply. Let's just run over a few benefits of using ed(1) >It's the STANDARD >It's 24 bytes! >It's the true path to nirvana. >Greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. On the systems I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
Admit it, visual editors suck. Ed is the standard text editor. Pic related - typical novice's session with the mighty ed
>im tired of memorizing memory address ranges lmao instead ill make a more user friendly interface and memorize line numbers lol
Carson Green
The composition of commands it ed makes it very easy to to do complex actions very quickly. Example: g/.*/m0 reverses the buffer.
Owen Morales
>command not found
its not even installed already, why should i use it?
Luke Butler
What kind of shit meme distro are you using? I bet it's arch.
Owen Rogers
it makes your bepis larger
Evan Fisher
sam > ed
Ayden Martin
What's your favorite ed sound scheme?
Austin Diaz
>Sam presents its own graphical user interface (GUI) window, samterm what a waste of space
Jordan Miller
Other cool benefits >the best text editor for the blind >it's the STANDARD >can be used in scripts >it's ed
Colton Perez
\a
Logan Lee
>no syntax highlighting >no spell check
Elijah Young
Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.
-rob
Hudson Morgan
visual formats are juvenile, I hum waveforms of elliptic curves to solve them, if your workstation requires any peripherals other than some 3.5mm jacks you're an infant
Michael Diaz
fuck you pike! you stupid hack!
Hudson Ortiz
But `notepad.exe` is the standard editor for Windows, unless you're saying that the standard MS edtior is `EDIT.EXE`.
Also `vi` and `nano` are on so many distros now that they might as well be considered standard editors.
Thomas Bennett
>EDIT.COM
ftfy
Anthony Harris
I didn't type the extension in for years. But still, I could have sworn it was an executable.
Thomas Diaz
it is an executable. a 16-bit COM DOS executable, not an EXE one
Cooper Nelson
either way, ed(1) is nothing compared to the true standard editor EDLIN.COM
Nathan Stewart
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Wyatt Walker
>bash: ed: command not found >01:08:33 x XXXXXX:~$
Asher Kelly
> using an outdated, barebones editor > actually being productive pick one
Dominic Campbell
you could at least post all the pasta
Liam Scott
ed really is the BEST editor if you're old as fuck and played a bunch of MUDs and shit. It's very reminiscent of stuff like the OLC description editor. That makes it very intuitive for old fucks like me.
