""" When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! """

> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

> Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

More? Less? Why are we talking about pagers? Who's on first?

who on first? I don’t think you can use who as init.

Not with that attitude!

Besides being the stardand, it also has a standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/e...

And my scripts are fully POSIX-compliant, running on GNU, slewsys, and OpenBSD ed(1), so the standard is pretty reasonable.

Was hoping to see this here, still makes me laugh after discovering it 20 years ago.

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