Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package"):
> I don't think ex is in the base system.  Are you suggesting that an
> implementation of it should be added ?  On my system here it seems to
> be provided by vim.tiny and /usr/bin/ex is 20x the size of /bin/ed.

Another reason to want ed is that in some circumstances there is only
room for ed.  So users familiar with these situations become used to
using `ed' which is more likely to be available.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46572 Feb 25  2014 /bin/ed*

The binary package is about 55k depending on arch.

Ian.