It's not just Arch. I used to think ed was everywhere, so when I had to write some scripts that would be awful with sed I used ed. And then it turned out that

It's not just Arch. I used to think ed was everywhere, so when I had to write some scripts that would be awful with sed I used ed. And then it turned out that a lot of the platforms people run the scripts on, they had to install ed explicitly! Ha. Sorry, Arch/Debian/Fedora/Centos/OpenSUSE users. If you don't believe me, look how many times 'ed' is installed on this page. :) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/blob/master/doc/prepare.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/blob/ma...