* On Mar  1 20:40, Stuart Longland (gentoo-dev@gentoo.org) wrote:
> Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor
> -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin,
> give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout.

Heathens.  "Ed is the standard text editor."

That said, when was the last time anyone used ed (on purpose) to edit
files?  Definitely belongs in sys-apps or somewhere else imo, with sed.

Tom

p.s. http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html