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Vim is built different (lemmy.ml)

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

Recently I decided to try ed for real and used it exclusively for a coding project. There is a certain joy in the simplicity, but ultimately I found myself printing lines and searching files more than I liked. And rewriting long lines instead of getting the substitutions wrong again.