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and not having to know ed is an excellent reason to learn vi :)

obCompulsoryEdJoke: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html



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I learned ed for a joke and found myself actually liking some features so much that I started porting them to emacs.

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I've used ed(1) to do complex(ish) programmatic edits to files that I think would have been extremely painful otherwise. An interesting editor worth spending at least a small amount of brainpower on.


That was pretty damm amusing.




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