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@a_breakin_glass ed(1) IS the standard editor. If you don't know it, you're not a real sysadmin.
@mwlucas why learn ed when you can just learn sed and vi ;)
@mwlucas @a_breakin_glass
Real Men do all their text editing with cat.
@a_breakin_glass @mwlucas
Sed is only useful if you didn't type it correctly the first time. But obviously, if you make a single typo, your Real Sysadmin card goes away forever.
@a_breakin_glass
Nah, they do it with printf. Who needs visual representations of newlines when "/n" will do?
@mwlucas @enkiv2
@a_breakin_glass @mwlucas openbsd's ramdisk doesn't have vi (or mg) but it does have ed
As it should be.
@a_breakin_glass vi is bloated and cumbersome.
nvi is worse.
vim? an abomination upon Unix.