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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>

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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



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