From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 29 06:48:33 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 9D96E155C44A for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3481E82278 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:48:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x2T6P4Pa054410 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:25:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Subject: Re: eee-dee anyone? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> <8ed6766a-33d9-5057-10b0-c2c3b631cdad@jeays.ca> Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: <1945d1d9-eae0-3239-0f72-5d7a7efccc57@dreamchaser.org> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:22:55 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8ed6766a-33d9-5057-10b0-c2c3b631cdad@jeays.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:25:04 -0600 (MDT) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3481E82278 X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@dreamchaser.org designates 66.109.141.57 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@dreamchaser.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.48 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[nightmare.dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.94)[-0.935,0]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dreamchaser.org]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21947, ipnet:66.109.128.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-3.23)[ip: (-8.47), ipnet: 66.109.128.0/19(-4.23), asn: 21947(-3.39), country: US(-0.07)]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] 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 06:48:33 -0000 On 3/28/19 8:28 PM, Mike Jeays wrote: > On 2019-03-28 9:50 p.m., 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"? _______________________________________________ > > It might occasionally be useful on a dysfunctional system that will > not start properly, when it might be the only editor available. Other > than this, I can't imagine any practical use for it. If vi is too > hard, there is always nano. I last used it in exactly that scenario. I think I had to mess with a munged /etc/fstab and a trashed disk.