InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhat less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?message-squaremessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down14
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareWhat less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-squarejsdz@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoEd Is The Standard Text Editor I’m not saying it doesn’t get a lot of shout outs, but it could always do with one more. I think the last time I used it was to automate the editing of config files on some antiquated telephony system by piping ed commands through netcat.
minus-squarefartsparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-211 months agoUsing Ed on an old Unix system feels like talking about WW2 with a veteran in a home except we both have shellshock.
minus-squareAffine Connection@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months ago Ed Is The Standard Text Editor ed, ex, and vi are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.
Ed Is The Standard Text Editor
I’m not saying it doesn’t get a lot of shout outs, but it could always do with one more. I think the last time I used it was to automate the editing of config files on some antiquated telephony system by piping ed commands through netcat.
Using Ed on an old Unix system feels like talking about WW2 with a veteran in a home except we both have shellshock.
ed
,ex
, andvi
are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.