Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Vim: The Most Important Text Editor On Linux" video.

I've been meaning to learn Ed -- just for history -- and now I'll do it in Bram's memory by way of understanding Vi and Vim better. We've lost a man who's fairly-deeply reprogrammed the brains of many of us ... and made us unable + unwilling to use all the other (obviously-inferior) text editors.
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Following up: I've learnt some very basic Ed ... It's a bit tedious, but it doesn't feel totally unfamiliar -- it is definitely like meeting Vim's slightly cranky but charming grandpa. I will be learning / playing with Ed more!
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@aladdin8623 Bless your heart.
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@krozareq Oh, that's so neat! That's a bit of a change to the mental model for editing -- essentially, it's a sort of virtual memory scheme ... except that the human is manually handling paging regions in/out. I've only done some extremely basic line-level sed'ing, but I anticipate that it (and grep) will make more sense once I learn some ed. I use Dvorak -- which I learnt before Vim -- and it'd never occurred to me that there was any logic whatsoever to HJKL ...until I saw the Veronica Explains video where she was learning to navigate with them -- oh, right, they're in a row on qwerty! And then finding out, oh, it's actually a bit deeper -- the term that Bill Joy used didn't have arrow keys! (I use a 40% board, which also does not have dedicated arrow keys ... what's old is new again.) All of which I mention by way of saying: Everything's obvious/a totally mystery depending on your familiarity/knowledge of the history.
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