Ed N. "ed Is The Standard Text Editor." Line Taken From Original The Unix Manual Page On Ed

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ed n.

"ed is the standard text editor." Line taken
from original the Unix manual page on ed, an ancient
line-oriented editor that is by now used only by a few Real Programmers, and even the
original line is sometimes uttered near the beginning of an emacs
vs. vi holy war on Usenet, with the (vain) hope to quench
the discussion before it really takes off. Often followed by a
standard text describing the many virtues of ed (such as the small
memory footprint on a Timex Sinclair, and the consistent
(because nearly non-existent) user interface).

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