From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme + mh 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:01:06 EST."
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Date: Tue,  7 Feb 2006 11:28:12 +0000
From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
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> (I assume you use ed to compose your mail - why would you
> want to trust your editing to the new kid on the block?)
> 
> Russ

I do this regularly, but not for the reason you mention.
On a dodgy network connection with odd terminal settings
ed has its advantages.  Besides, with the exception of
/bin/true and /bin/false ed has the most consistent user
interface I've ever encountered.

--
John Stalker
University of Dublin, Trinity College
School of Mathematics