On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 5:31 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm curious when people (other than me) erred and stopped saying that ed
> was the standard editor.
>

They haven't.  When a vi vs. Emacs (vel sim.) argument is swirling around
me, I explain that ex(1) is the editor I use.  People say "But ed(1) is the
standard editor!"  To which I reply, "Yes, but I'm willing to trade a
little standardosity for a little convenience."




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I Hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference
which hath happened betwixt us.
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