ed is the standard text editor - used to say so in its manpage, too. I own a Unix book in which the authors dismiss vi as too bloated to be usable ("you need a

ed is the standard text editor - used to say so in its manpage, too. I own a Unix book in which the authors dismiss vi as too bloated to be usable ("you need a large PDP-11 for it to fit into memory and still have room for an actual text to edit") and having too many features for anyone to need.