[COFF] Kids these days....

[John Levine]

It appears that Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> said:
>On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 09:09:16PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
>> Remind them that ed (pronounced e d) is the standard editor.
>
>It's annoying for me that many Linux distros install vi/vim as the
>default editor, and not ed --- and I never learned how to use vi, at
>least not fluently.  For me, it's either ed or emacs (or emacs-nox on
>a server/VM), so I have to install ed explicitly after a new install.

On all the unices I know, vi is also called ex, and if you invoke it
as ex, it looks enough like ed to get your editing done.

R's,
John