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"Ed is the standard text editor." (1991) (gnu.org)
5 points by archargelod 71 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. > Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog > message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; > and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

It's always a joy to rediscover the wisdom of conscientious sysadmins.




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