On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:22AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
What about "ed"?
… it's time we drop such legacy junk! Scripts are all written to sed (or something entirely different, like awk or perl) these days, and nobody seriously uses ed for interactive editing (there are tons of more usable text editors around). Sure, we can keep "ed" in the repository, but I don't see why we install it by default.
It is very convenient for blind users with a line-based braille terminal. Do we ship accessibility tools for Gnome by default? If so, I think we can afford to ship poor little ed.