Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:22:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eee-dee anyone? Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1903290718570.17317@sas1.nber.org> In-Reply-To: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in> References: <23e162e23288d9a2e498df5f40488bb8@kathe.in>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, 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"? Yes, I do use it. Not all the time, but please don't remove ed from the OS just because vi is better. There is a fallacious class of argument that is routine in mailing lists that decodes to "if a is better than b, then b is no good and it is a sign of bad character to use it". Daniel Feenberg NBER
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.LRH.2.21.1903290718570.17317>