Why i unironical use ed in 2022
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Ok, there is a plethora of really fancy modern
editors out there, why do i use this totally 
anachronistic piece of prehistoric software?

Have you ever used emacs over ssh session from
a mobile phone? Or vi? Perhaps its just my
inablility to learn the proper way to position
my fingers correctly on a touchscreen to set the
position of the cursor or select text without
constantly overshooting and needing five or
more retries to get stuff done, and don't
get me started t ramble about scrolling on a
relatively tiny smartphone screen...

This is the environment where i think ed does
really shine. Its simple, sleek, totally
keyboard oriented, uses only a few, easy to
learn bit powerful commands and doesn't waste
any space on the screen for a menu or anything
other than the txt you are working on.

Of course the interface is different (not so
much if you are into vi): 

When first started you see... pretty much 
nothing, only a 0 if you have invoke it 
without a file to open. The 0 indicates that
there are 0 bytes in the buffer. 

Now if you press 'a' (for append) you can start
typing your text. Did you made an typking 
mistake? No problem! Just hit return and make
a '.' on an empty line, now you are back in
command mode where you simply can type in 
's/typking/typing/' and your error is gone.
Now type 'a' again and you are back in append
mode where you can finish your text. 

What did you write in lines 1-10? Easy to find
out: Go back into command mode via '.' and
enter '1,10p' and voila! There are your first
ten lines. 

Finished writing and want a look at the 
complete text? Easy, ',p' will do the trick.
Now just hit 'w' in command mode and your text 
is saved.

Ed has many more tricks in its sleeve and is
surely worth a look, even in 2022.