[COFF] Kids these days....

[Aron Insinga]

I can't check the size of vi or ex right now (not installed), but ed is 
*tiny* and starts up very quickly.

On 2/12/25 15:48, John Levine wrote:
> 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