@a_breakin_glass ed(1) IS the standard editor. If you don't know it, you're not a real sysadmin.

@mwlucas why learn ed when you can just learn sed and vi ;)

@a_breakin_glass vi is bloated and cumbersome.

nvi is worse.

vim? an abomination upon Unix.

@mwlucas @a_breakin_glass
Real Men do all their text editing with cat.

@enkiv2 @mwlucas actually, they do it with sed and echo.

@a_breakin_glass @mwlucas
Sed is only useful if you didn't type it correctly the first time. But obviously, if you make a single typo, your Real Sysadmin card goes away forever.

@a_breakin_glass
Nah, they do it with printf. Who needs visual representations of newlines when "/n" will do?
@mwlucas @enkiv2

@ND3JR @mwlucas @a_breakin_glass
'\n'

@a_breakin_glass @mwlucas openbsd's ramdisk doesn't have vi (or mg) but it does have ed

@cb

As it should be.

@mhka ssshhhh! It's a secret!

@mwlucas @mkha Secret? ed(1) has been around since the origin of the World! s/the World/Unix/ Great book, by the way - only 111* chapters. *binary.