Re: Obvious Text Editor Troll

Peter Olcott writes:
Is vim available on every old/new Unix/Linux system? My solution must
work on every old/new Unix/Linux system.

I wrote:
Only Ed is available on absolutely every old/new Unix/Linux system. Vi is
available on almost every old/new Unix/Linux system. Vim is not. You
don't want to learn Ed.

Rainer Weikusat writes:
Hmm ... why not? 'Line editors' are mightily useful for certain tasks.

Mr. Olcott clearly does not want to learn Ed. In fact, I'm not certain
that he wants to learn anything.
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John Hasler
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