Re: [PATCH] ed with perl-compatible regular expressions

[Shawn Wagner]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:43 AM Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Why try to mutate ed to be down that path
> instead of simply using the editor that supports these features in the
> first place?  And also if so then why start with ed instead of editors
> like nano that are already further along the path to that goal?

Because unlike most other editors, ed is lightweight, simple and easy
to use in a shell script.