[ale] Ongoing vim vs. emacs

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Tue June 3 2008, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
> help screens and cursor positioning code! ?I just want an EDitor!!
> Not a "viitor". ?Not a "emacsitor". ?Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
> ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
>
> http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/ed.html

gawd, I had forgotten that you could actually run ed in Linux.. it's been... 
20 years since I typed:
$ ed fred


I use ed commands in VI all the time, it is SO much easier than trying to GET 
somewhere to DO something:)
:wq ( ducking and running )!

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