On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:22AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > What about "ed"?
> … it's time we drop such legacy junk! Scripts are all written to sed (or 
> something entirely different, like awk or perl) these days, and nobody 
> seriously uses ed for interactive editing (there are tons of more usable 
> text editors around). Sure, we can keep "ed" in the repository, but I don't 
> see why we install it by default.

It is very convenient for blind users with a line-based braille terminal. Do
we ship accessibility tools for Gnome by default? If so, I think we can
afford to ship poor little ed.

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Matthew Miller <mat...@mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
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