Theoo • Ed and taking the time (opens in new tab)

My favourite code editor is ed. For those who don't know, ed is one of the first editors to have been made, it's part of a class of editors called "line editors", which means that you are only editing complete lines of text. You can append after a line, insert before it or change a specific part using regexes, but you cannot put your cusor on a word and edit there. Ed doesn't even have a cursor. Ed is naturally limiting, it can only do one thing, edit a file. No file searching, no scrolling, ...