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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ed is the standard text editor.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

They don't call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It's an EDitor!

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

This is correct.

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Simple and gets the job done. ~~How do you exit it though?~~

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just felt that many people may get lost in it when first using it, the same way ppl get lost in vim. At least I managed to get lost in both of them when I first tried them.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ohh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print ? when it doesn't recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can't figure out how to exit lol

I also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol

Tbh if I'm just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

got me there : )

I am unfortunately so used to vim and its bindings that I suffer whenever I can't use it. It can be really tricky to do certain operations in other editors.