Do you use ed?

CoderMan · 05-20-2010, 03:08 PM

Yes, it's true. I'm an ed user. Usually emacs is fine... but sometimes when I am in a really geeky mood I'll pull out ed to hack away at my config files.

AlucardZero · 05-20-2010, 03:12 PM

God no

14moose · 05-20-2010, 03:17 PM

Only on my 3cps teletype.

But I'm having trouble buying rolls of the yellow paper for it. So I usually have to bail on "ed", and just use "iWork Pages" on my new iPad

ilikejam · 05-20-2010, 04:45 PM

:q
:q!
q
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q
^Z
export EDITOR=vi
kill %1

MTK358 · 05-20-2010, 07:23 PM

I was interested in learning to use ed.

multios · 05-31-2010, 10:59 PM

yes, I use ed. Took me a while, but now I really enjoy it for its' simplicity.

Elv13 · 05-31-2010, 11:08 PM

Personally, I use nano. I used emacs for a long time, I can live with vim too, but seriously, there is better graphical editor like Kate with more feature and greater extensability (let say easier in 2010, I know that both vi and emacs can get/are bloatable too). When I need to edit something from CLI, the easier the better, mc and nano are good at that.

MBybee · 06-01-2010, 12:32 AM

I use primarily vi/Vim.

Used to be a hardcode tpu addict, then edit /tpu, then... well, nothing worked quite like it. But vi was on almost everything

dna9 · 06-01-2010, 02:01 PM

ed is LOLZ.

hda7 · 06-02-2010, 09:57 AM

When you've just had a crash, and you're without emacs and vim, and the vi clone doesn't work right, what's left? ed!!!

Personally, I mostly use ed for fun for making changes to config files mostly. I use emacs and vim a lot for other things.

dive · 06-02-2010, 10:53 AM

Weirdos.

potuz · 06-02-2010, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

:q :q! :wq :w :w! :wq! :quit :quit! :help help helpquit quit quithelp
:quitplease :quitnow :leave ^X^C ^C ^D ^Z ^Q QUITDAMMIT ^[:wq

Very very good!

I use ed as an interactive mode for sed sometimes, although I always have a vi terminal somewhere in my desktop.

multios · 06-03-2010, 05:35 AM

dive,
q is faster and easier than :q
w is faster and easier than :w
h is faster and easier than :h, :help

he-he, couldn't resist. Actually, I laughed out loud first time I saw your signatur on the slackware section.

hda7, I moved an hda to hdb and forgot to edit /etc/fstab. Decided to learn ed real quick

MTK358 · 06-03-2010, 07:26 AM

The first time I tried quitting ed:

Code:

~$ ed
^C
^C
q
~$

Come on, 'q' is so universal among command line apps!

CoderMan · 06-03-2010, 11:23 AM

One nice thing about it is that it is small, but still workable. On my system, the binary is 44K, and that is with -O2 optimization. Dependencies are pretty light also:

Code:

$ ldd /bin/ed
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff24722000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2869326000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f286967f000)