Ed is infinitely more user friendly, was in fact my first editor (punched cards or very limited environments like the one IBM provided for BASIC and PL/I prior

Ed is infinitely more user friendly, was in fact my first editor (punched cards or very limited environments like the one IBM provided for BASIC and PL/I prior to that), and it's what I drop back to, usually in its more user friendly ex form, when I don't or can't use a full fledged EMACS. TECO is best described by the one liner, "A moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret", I'll see if I can look up the author of that, it was in the ITS fortune file.