Why ed(1)?

25 points by lorddimwit

spc476

I think the last time I was forced to use ed (or an ed-like editor) was on a cartridge based assembler for the Tandy Color Computer. Even the Tandy 16B running Xenix (from 1983) that I had for a period of time had vi running on it.

skade

I use unconfigured vim for similar reasons, but edconf was always my hero.

I should start an sl account.

hawski

I was wondering how viable would it be to have ed as a backend of a remote editor. Think VS Code remoting, but without downloading anything on the server end, just using ed.

jmiven

Pretty viable! Sam, arguably ed's successor in Unix and Plan 9, has such a feature. And the updated (but archived) version by @lorddimwit uses SSH for the communication between the two halves.