![]() ![]() ![]() They pwint usewess messages wike, 'C-h fow hewp' and '"foo" Fiwe is wead onwy'. When I wog into my Xenix system with my 110 baud tewetype, both vi and Emacs awe just too damn swow. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. The standard.Įd is for those who can remember what they are working on. They chose the most karmic editor of all. When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. ![]() Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.ĮD IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!! Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!Īnd ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.ĭESCRIPTION Ed is the standard text editor.Ĭomputer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. They print useless messages like, 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. ![]()
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