@Skullgrid__dup_11231@lemmy.world
Post #542631
2026-03-05 21:18 UTC
with nano? /uj maybe it was an option during the install, IDK, I don’t want to bother the folks with a suspicion and a shitty memory, nor do I want to reinstall deb somewhere esle
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-03-05 21:32
I was joking, definitely don’t write them to install an editor that’s obsolete. sed and grep (both inspired by ed) to do most of what ed does in a modern way, and ed was only useful over teletype when it was slow/expensive to render a scrollable field. All modern TTYs support scroll regions, and with sed it just doesn’t make sense to use ed anymore. ed as the standard editor is mostly a meme based on this page wiki.c2.com/?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor