Re: Bug#776413: The priority of the ed package
Hi
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:49:58AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> This makes it sound theoretical, or a question of breaking people's
> `finger macros'. That is indeed annoying. But there is a much more
> serious practical point, which Paul Hardy touches on.
How many people are using "ed" and not for example the still installed
"ex"?
Even historic documents
(https://twitter.com/0xUID/status/1051208357850345472) only list ex for
that purpose.
> There are still situations, even in modern systems, where the terminal
> connection is limited to a serial line or equivalent. In that
> situation full-screen editors tend to malfunction because they do not
> know the screen size (or, sometimes, terminal type).
Serial lines have absolutely no problem with vim or similar stuff. ANSI
command sequences work on all of them. You may need to restrict
yourself to 80x25.
There is exactly one exception: a 3215 terminal on a s390 vm.
> Conversely, ed works perfectly. It can also be used as a pager (since
> less doesn't work properly either).
We have "more".
Bastian
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