[COFF] Kids these days....

[Larry McVoy]

On my 3.7Ghz Intel box vim takes 0.4 to start up and exit and I'm pretty
sure 90% of that is the time it takes me to paste

:q

We aren't running on under 1 mhz CPUs any more.  A 10 year old Rasberry Pi
had 4 cores @ 900mhz.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Aron Insinga wrote:
> 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

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