What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

@InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

@jsdz@lemmy.ml · edit-2 2 years ago

I’m not saying it doesn’t get a lot of shout outs, but it could always do with one more. I think the last time I used it was to automate the editing of config files on some antiquated telephony system by piping ed commands through netcat. There remains a chance that I might live long enough to find some excuse to use it again.

Affine Connection · edit-2 2 years ago

Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

ed, ex, and vi are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.

@fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 years ago

Using Ed on an old Unix system feels like talking about WW2 with a veteran in a home except we both have shellshock.