@renzev to linuxmemesEnglish • 1 month agoMe giving advice about text editorsimagemessage-square186arrow-up1965arrow-down159
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkEnglish10•1 month agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 month agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-21 month agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoReally? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB) Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
ed
was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
vi
and gettingvim
is just a pleasant surprise :):q!