Subject: Info: Editor, Which One On Unix ? Sender: Editor_Correspondent@ From: Editor_Correspondent@ 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 ;-) http://www.berklix.com Computer Consultancy http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ My Resume - English & German http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/ Contact - German for business also OK. http://www.berklix.com/free/ Free Software http://www.berklix.org Free Organisations & Clubs