renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1966arrow-down159
arrow-up1907arrow-down1imageMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square186fedilink
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months 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-up3·2 months 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 :)