On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: > 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.
Yep, ed uploader here. The installed size of the latest ed package is 116 kB. Its upstream is alive, there were at least 1 release per year, the latest release happed on Feb 20, 2020 and uploaded to the Debian archive on Feb 24. I'd say that ed is rock-solid, it just works and there were no any build problems in at least 2 years. Also, please, take a look at #776413. There are some requests to raise ed priority. [#776413] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776413 Ср 18 мар 2020 @ 18:52 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>: > Alas, our ed is basically: > #!/bin/sh > while read x;do echo '?';done That's not true. The ed package in the Debian archive is full GNU ed. Cheers! Lev
