> Has anyone come up with an ed with the advantages of a modern screen, so it shows the full file on the side but you can still run ed commands on it? Unless I

> Has anyone come up with an ed with the advantages of a modern screen, so it shows the full file on the side but you can still run ed commands on it? Unless I misunderstood you, it's called Vi(m). > I am curious if anyone uses ed as their editor of choice these days, assuming an actual screen and such of course. If so, why? Muscle memory? If I'm on a machine where the choices of editor are either ed or nano, I prefer ed. Also, if I want to do some text processing on a bunch of files and it's simpler to do it with an ed script than with sed or awk, I'll use ed. It has happened. If I remember right, I wanted to edit some upper lines when some lower lines matched some regex for a bunch of files. It ended up being an ed command like 'g/foo/?bar?s/baz/qux/'. Doing something like that with sed or awk gets more complicated. > Edit: ... I was thinking of something a little less different, like literally just a command prompt on the bottom and a pane above centered on the line you just operated on. If you stick to command-mode, that's pretty much what vi and vim are. You could run this in vim: :cmap <enter> <enter>: to re-enter command-mode automatically as soon as you leave it.