ed(1) conference @[email protected]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rfceditor/116053089319721250

The “Ed” in these RFC announcements indicate with which text editor the document was written.

I think.

• Improved memory allocation calculation (uses sizeof on actual array element instead of explicit type)
• Better error message: filenames ending in '/' now report "Invalid filename" instead of "Is a directory"

@dabeaz

Age verification challenge: edit C code with ed(1)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pikapods/116032800231967704

New business idea for @ed1conf: ed(1) with cloud lock-in.

I got tired of hacking ad-hoc text selection functions, so I wrote edtext: line selection and manipulation using ed address ranges.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202602/edtext

@ed1conf @dallo Kerouac would have used ed(1).

@dallo

You could always use ed(1) for writing your novel instead:

• pure text editing of your .md or .tex files

• no need (or really even much ability) to tinker with its configuration

• the modal-editing lauded in the post

• no elisp or lua to read/modify

• no dreaded Emacs pinky-finger, or even remapping required

@elrohir

Maybe if you want to date Vi, you have to date Ed & Em first?

(just don't date your Ex)

Keeping my streak: next daily source reading is up: https://blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260207-daily-source-reading-ed.html

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD

"Say hello to my little ed(1)" could just be this thing that I occasionally say in a funny voice.

@laxsill re: emacs vs vi

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@emily_s/115935318882732555

I could see ed(1) editing this repo with confidence.

Just had lunch with @yarkot and at one point mentioned the difficulties I was having trying to write an interesting blog post about my holiday Rust+ed(1) adventure. He then said "maybe that's because you're not writing it with ed(1)."

(stunned silence).

🤔

So, not only did I recently code a whole-ass programming language using nothing more than Rust and ed(1), I just submitted a proposal (unrelated) to RustConf 2026 a full month before the deadline using no AI.

Today's plan: clean out my inbox, except for the messages from Ken Thompson about blurbing "Ed Mastery."

If you never hear from me again, you know what happened.

@mwl

Bond: "Do you expect me to awk?"

Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to vi. There is nothing you can awk to me about that I don't already know."

@jpmens

Did you know that POSIX requires AI in vi/ex?

> I don't know what other people think about this, but I have no plans to add plugins to #ed.

— Antonio Diaz Diaz, maintainer of #GNU #ed(1)

Finally someone not falling for the idea of plugins!

CC @ed1conf