From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 17:20:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A2337B408 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 17:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 93EB9AF52; Fri, 10 May 2002 02:20:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 02:20:31 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: Ross Lippert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an editor in /bin Message-ID: <20020510002031.GB21593@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> References: <200205081326.GAA02899@eskimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205081326.GAA02899@eskimo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ross Lippert writes: >1) is there a better editor in /bin than ed? >2) (if yes) shouldn't there be a better editor in /bin than ed? ed is easy to use for small editing jobs (on the scale of editing config files until you can bring your system to mount user), so where's the problem? You can easily compile any other editor you like statically and place it somewhere where it would be accessible through the root filesystem if you think it's not worth the effort to learn a bit of ed. However, if you know vi already, you should get along with ed easily, since the ed command set is basically a subset of vi. I think you'll get many replies going into the direction that for making proficient use of Unix, learning ed is something you cannot skip (these days, ed is more often used for bulk-editing of files in shell scripts than used as an interactive editor, and it's a very powerful tool for that purpose too.) --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message