From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 29 02:29:36 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734751553C86 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E0CF708EF for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.193.229.77]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MPaQU-1hNX4k2AgE-00Mfi4; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:24:16 +0100 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:24:16 +0100 From: Polytropon To: mayuresh@kathe.in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eee-dee anyone? Message-Id: <20190329032416.61dd677d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> References: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:iOngYo4EqxduGYa/SJHRnwQOgVuaBXrfUbfCBoxKkF5BjmSiDHz TvbuQ9XU+J5rzkE/0pPSu3w2gZfomeUAC8VMD9KQm0Gr44LMuZvtOPRjQLaqywuGHhPvqJL ltffuHek1NC+N2XZ4z6ospLlBOtU0K4IADl1EX0JPVLoYWXLCE5W2cw+9zqm80mBPoB5kQT 1NvoyZodGDUs8J4rVyVcA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:nvG0GzSeY3U=:wfQIG69Wrevl3lgKKltGkR YiCGep+nD/NSSpG8CqUJNZTe0t87571FtzT2WO3pz1RFh/OLYfYerMI9vzubNPAEE2RqCJKbT YvUH8KvP6lF20OD7Y1KgSsiXRwJbWPZdRRMJzt3Y57i9sTJifC69t2vZLumnDiKr3QCjpTLLy vsvFcZahx+37wMLby//bdYs0fv13jhs7bZQpZ/wl25KAMU4y+oOzvPG/FYhKqrknDvhXuWXs0 j5LDWe8vbYcgpoiyRaBvoeuHt52IKkIJdDNGLjYmo3CLXZup0cYGGLvYjeiLLmKz9cYuySr9i a1TKKBRr2I7R3TjW8ROQOm0eBX8sGOKfiLnCIrP6kWchSr9bax1+pXYlyoUyLPsAW36xWDRwd u4UxjqyZEZCdegJ0qFtqhBsyLCJPZRmeJ6pQUKMCpw0SULfaH8iMZKPKUVGCxHOVqhTgn9j0x Y0agMugUXpTVaX3lf8C1yKZ7OiOczhp5fC+YOi3ykPG8M1m5E/Mj2MgZKTrBdhQpLhBKDsGJC rpj449cHyvvOnULR0ATjO1YE5y5sC7LgoDS40RWsh1hrackeivY6nXZPJQgjuULlW4DQ6d7AN l4LkHPMA1FpAMf5Vt8dktTidDM1RP2Niiy0m3iG/6RKX/6DXjmYLET6X5ZWzAYO4LC/9dteQI +f2Q1JP8kRPkj5cT1tmYKZtGD6fF7/C10QkIL8Ham9XHfRmUtGnrfzH6S4ki5IoXl21Ju1CzL 1gV2HXaXphhH8qiWQWGO4BrKAyWSL8PCu+f/Dri+QIaWPVK26/X0YAe6qTs= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6E0CF708EF X-Spamd-Bar: ++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [6.86 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; IP_SCORE(0.60)[ip: (2.70), ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-1.32), asn: 8560(1.61), country: DE(-0.01)]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx01.schlund.de]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[77.229.193.92.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.93)[0.929,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.94)[0.945,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[131.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:29:36 -0000 On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:20:43 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Are there still people on this list using the "ed" text-editor? > If yes, is it just for kicks? Or is there any real advantage over "vi"? According to historical "man ed", ed is THE STANDARD EDITOR. :-) It's big advantage is the ability to be scripted. It can be controlled from a shell script to create and change text files, which is comparable to stream editors like sed or the ex mode in vi (which, as a program, is THE VISUAL EDITOR). I'm not sure people actually use this particular software, but many sysadmins I know have had their share of ed during their professional education. I'm familiar with the basics myself, but I haven't found a case where I would have wanted to actually _use_ ed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...