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For those unfamiliar, `ee` is the Easy Editor, shipped with FreeBSD.

• deathanatos 9y ago
  Then there is ed, man! !man ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
  • xelxebar 9y ago
    I know this is a joke, but in the past I've tried using ed just for kicks. Is actually quite illuminating. That was right around the same time that I realized that sed and grep are packaged ed functions. If you're interested at all in Unix history, if recommend playing around with it some. It can be surprising how much ed shows its influence on conventions and standards to this day.
    • u801e 9y ago
      Not only that, but there's also ex which was an improved version of ed. ex later got a visual mode called vi. In vim, you can run it in ex mode with the -e parameter. You can also enter ex mode using Q or gQ depending on your vim configuration.
      • xelxebar 9y ago
        Yeah! The whole history of vim is sort of what kicked off my interest in Unix history! For those not familiar with the story of how Ken Thompson came to write ed, there's a short fun read here: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html I do ocassionally end up in ex mode if I need to run a few vim commands back to back. I'm curious if there are other reasons to use it though.
• gaius 9y ago
  It was the default editor on the AIX systems we had at college, not the usual vi, for some reason. This was in the mid-90s. Wrote a hell of a lot of code and Usenet posts in it. Also my first HTML homepage in '94, and my first Java in '95!