Re: Do we really care how many floppies are in the base?
CD Rasmussen writes:
>Here is another vote for vi in the base set. On a well populated
>system, Isn't ed used only for scripting and couldn't ex do the same
>thing? Do we need ed at all except for completeness? (I'm now open
>to be flame-broiled)
Personally I can't stand vi and am therefore going to be prejudiced
against anything to do with it ... but I believe I'm being fairly
objective in asserting that something like ee would be much better for
naive users.
It's also only slightly bigger than ed.
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