Oh man. ed is the ultimate in text editing. It is the ultimate in spartan-ness, the ultimate in portability (it exists on every *nix and linux system known to human kind). And it is so obscure that it takes a little getting used to in order to do productive stuff with it.
If you thought vim was spartan with its cryptic abbreviated key-stroke commands, you should check out the commands that ed has. Be amazed. Be very amazed.
Okay, enough said. Time to get back to coding (in ed).
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