fwiw... anyone who knows vi already knows ed, it's just the line mode commands. you save the : and that's it.
uh... fwiw, I had a mainframe typish system I had to admin 30 years ago... being a mainframe, had no working TERMCAP, and the editor was ed. yeah, a bit painful, the only command that you don't use in ordinary vi is p. On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:45:35PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 16, Tomas Pospisek <t...@sourcepole.ch> wrote: > > > > > > Agreed: this is a very good idea since I really think that every > default > > > > install must provide something enough vi-compatible. > > > I'd disagree. vi is very newbie unfriendly. OTOH I expect people that > > Even if this were true (using vi is one of the most basic system > > administration skills), I understand that we still provide nano. > > I've always considered /bin/ed the most basic system administration > tool, since it doesn't require a working terminal or termcap entry. > It works even if you are using an ASR-33 teletype. :-) > > And at least for me, I find /bin/ed much more user friendly than vi, > since it doesn't have as modal of a UI as vi. (Vi has 3 modes, ed has > only 2.) > > /bin/ed is also *much* smaller than even busybox. > > - Ted > >
