me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.
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What sins have you committed on your system to remove ed?
me no remove package. me start with vanilla debian install. no need gui until me choose to install gui.
Please file a bug with the Debian maintainers.
How are people supposed to edit files without the standard editor?
with nano? /uj maybe it was an option during the install, IDK, I don't want to bother the folks with a suspicion and a shitty memory, nor do I want to reinstall deb somewhere else
I was joking, definitely don’t write them to install an editor that’s obsolete.
sed and grep (both inspired by ed) to do most of what ed does in a modern way, and ed was only useful over teletype when it was slow/expensive to render a scrollable field.
All modern TTYs support scroll regions, and with sed it just doesn’t make sense to use ed anymore.
ed as the standard editor is mostly a meme based on this page https://wiki.c2.com/?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor
using arch, btw
actually using debian btw