{"id":13800,"date":"2014-08-03T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13800"},"modified":"2014-08-03T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:58:47","slug":"ed-man-man-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13800","title":{"rendered":"Ed, man! !man ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi <b>and<\/b> Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, \u2018C-h for help\u2019 and \u2018\u201cfoo\u201d File is read only\u2019. So I use the editor that doesn&#8217;t waste my VALUABLE time.<\/p>\n<p>Ed, man!\u00a0\u00a0!man ed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/fun\/jokes\/ed-msg.html\">Ed, man! !man ed- GNU Project &#8211; Free Software Foundation (FSF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their \u201cedlin\u201d on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.<\/p>\n<p>Ed is for those who can <b>remember<\/b> what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED \u201cVISUAL\u201d EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, \u2018C-h for help\u2019 and \u2018\u201cfoo\u201d File is read only\u2019. So I use the editor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[785,1313],"class_list":["post-13800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-teletype","tag-text-editors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13802,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}