renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMe giving advice about text editorslemmy.worldimagemessage-square176linkfedilinkarrow-up1965arrow-down159
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minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agovi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoWhich is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
minus-squarekattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoUnless you wanted to learn to use ed (which you don’t)
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years 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 years 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 :)
vi is part of the POSIX standard, so it’ll be available in some form on almost anything UNIX-flavoured
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.
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
edwas so tiny that there wouldn’t be any reason to not include it. (Ubuntu has it and it’s 59KB)Asking for
viand gettingvimis just a pleasant surprise :):q!