[COFF] Kids these days....

[Joseph Holsten]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025, at 16:56, Stuff Received wrote:
> On 2025-02-12 10:30, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 	  	      	     		- Ted
>
> Amusing given that MacOS comes with ed (as required).

On my iPad, I’ve taken to using Blink.app as an SSH or Mosh client to real unix systems. But occasionally I just want to edit a local file. For a while ed (presumably from busybox) was “available” but crashing. Apparently they have removed ed in favor of full vim. No, the vi command  is not linked to it.