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why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom. (files.catbox.moe)
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me like use nano. nano say how do thing. nano exit easy.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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