<story><title>Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>(Attribution is questionable, but as a geezer I feel the need to make sure the younger generations at least are familiar with this:)&lt;p&gt;ed is the standard text editor&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s look at a typical novice&amp;#x27;s session with the mighty ed:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  golem&amp;gt; ed

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  help
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  quit
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  bye
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  hello? 
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  eat flaming death
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  ^D
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  ---
  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.
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(As a geezer, I also have to say I really am impressed with ed in some ways, and you should never be afraid to try it when you have a specific and known edit you want to do.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waldir</author><text>After reading lots of similar anecdotes about Ed (Steven Levy&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Hackers&amp;quot; dedicates quite a few words to it), I was quite sure it was pretty much unusable for today&amp;#x27;s UI patterns, but also morbidly curious about how it might eventually work.&lt;p&gt;Then I came across &amp;quot;Actually using ed&amp;quot;[1], which did such a great job at explaining how to use the tool that I decided to throw in my 2 cents by submitting an entry to the tldr-pages project[2]. The rendered page looks can be found on [3]. Any feedback welcome!&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sanctum.geek.nz&amp;#x2F;arabesque&amp;#x2F;actually-using-ed&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sanctum.geek.nz&amp;#x2F;arabesque&amp;#x2F;actually-using-ed&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tldr-pages&amp;#x2F;tldr&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;944&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tldr-pages&amp;#x2F;tldr&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;944&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tldr-pages&amp;#x2F;tldr&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;common&amp;#x2F;ed.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;tldr-pages&amp;#x2F;tldr&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;common&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bandrami</author><text>(Attribution is questionable, but as a geezer I feel the need to make sure the younger generations at least are familiar with this:)&lt;p&gt;ed is the standard text editor&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s look at a typical novice&amp;#x27;s session with the mighty ed:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  golem&amp;gt; ed

  ?
  help
  ?
  ?
  ?
  quit
  ?
  exit
  ?
  bye
  ?
  hello? 
  ?
  eat flaming death
  ?
  ^C
  ?
  ^C
  ?
  ^D
  ?

  ---
  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.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
(As a geezer, I also have to say I really am impressed with ed in some ways, and you should never be afraid to try it when you have a specific and known edit you want to do.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>&amp;quot;When I use an editor, I don&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;t even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;fun&amp;#x2F;jokes&amp;#x2F;ed-msg.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;fun&amp;#x2F;jokes&amp;#x2F;ed-msg.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>