renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1942arrow-down158
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minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·30 days agoReally? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed ed was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB) Asking for vi and getting vim is just a pleasant surprise :)
Unless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
ed is sadly not installed by default on some modern distros. Even vi is often a symlink to vim in vi-mode.
Really? Not that I’d notice, but I assumed
ed
was so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
vi
and gettingvim
is just a pleasant surprise :)