Recently I decided to try ed for real and used it exclusively for a coding project. There is a certain joy in the simplicity, but ultimately I found myself printing lines and searching files more than I liked. And rewriting long lines instead of getting the substitutions wrong again.

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[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

So true

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (22 children)

‘vimtutor’ is your friend. Nobody sane uses vim as an IDE, but if you have to ssh to a host to fuck with a config file it’s pretty nice to know because you can guarantee that most distros have at least vi, if not vim.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

And if not they have sed or ed or echo and cat.

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[–] Tillman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vim is pretty amazing. Almost everywhere now too.

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