Subject: Info: Editor, Which One On Unix ?
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			I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/editors.txt
Thanks for your mail, 
-  Base Unix editor is `ed'.  That's all I had on V6 in 1977. It's all an 
   admin can hope for if a machine is wrecked. (& cat if ed's gone too ;-)
-  All reasonable Unix manufacturers (except the perverted)
   ship vi in the base too.  `ed' is used to fix `vi' etc if broken.
-  FreeBSD (just during install) runs some anomalous screen editor that's    
   not `ed' & not `vi', (but `ed' & `vi' remain standard minimal Unix).
-  Some admins when repairing jump straight from `ed' to `emacs'.
   Many distributors toss `emacs' (& `bash') into distributions to keep a
   sizeable minority of skilled people happy, though they're not core Unix.
-  Once `ed' & `vi' are available, the machine is deliverable to users as 
   standard minimal Unix (TM). users can then even install their own favourite  
   editor if needed, using ed/ vi/ emacs to edit their config.
-  What further editors different users might prefer, gets to be     
   too boring, eg ( @ 2004.06 & with FreeBSD-4.9 )
        http://www.freebsd.org/ports/   # Lists editors: 330.
        http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html
        cd /usr/ports/editors ; ls -1 | wc -l	# 187
- Too many editors, too little time ;-)

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