ed is not bad at all. ed is a line editor, which makes it manageable. This distinguishes it from TECO, which is a character editor. I find command line chara

ed is not bad at all. ed is a line editor, which makes it manageable. This distinguishes it from TECO, which is a character editor. I find command line character editors hard to use. It's very easy to lose your place, and the cognitive load is just too high for me. Now, mind, I never used one in anger for any real length of time. But the learning curve was off putting enough to make me seek greener pastures instead. Like ed. I used ed for a bit. I was using it to type in the ed clone from the Software Tools book, trying to get it to work in Turbo Pascal on CP/M (with the hope that I could get and ed to work on CP/M, because CP/Ms ed is awful). It was quite useable and manageable. I had some rough parts, which I can't recall, but it wasn't a horrific experience to be sure.