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and not having to know ed is an excellent reason to learn vi :) obCompulsoryEdJoke: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-

• CPLX 11y ago
  That was pretty damm amusing.
• endgame 11y ago
  a I learned ed for a joke and found myself actually liking some features so much that I started porting them to emacs. . w
  • bch 11y ago
    I've used ed(1) to do complex(ish) programmatic edits to files that I think would have been extremely painful otherwise. An interesting editor worth spending at least a small amount of brainpower on.