Ed is the standard text editor. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html Surely you can set EDITOR on any machine y

Ed is the standard text editor. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html Surely you can set EDITOR on any machine you are doing real work on, which isn't going to be a fresh default installation. OK, so the default should be vi, and damn the newbies... and the emacs users?