Will good ol' ed be available?
 

To spare some of you some writing, I know this is a rather pointless, freakish question, but does anybody know 1) whether the N900 includes BusyBox by default and if so 2) whether the BusyBox build includes the ed text editor?

Thanks!

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

Yes.

I expect not, as previous Maemo releases have not included it. A shame, I know.

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

It doesn't:
but it should be straightforward to recompile the Debian (or Ubuntu) ed package.

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

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

I just use nano, I don't understand you elitists.

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

Thanks to all for the replies. Is it possible to replace the default BusyBox with a more feature-rich binary (instead of adding individual binaries, say for ed)? Do you need to be a grown-up hacker to do so?

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

Well you might be able to replace it with bash (I believe one of the packages in the repo is meant as replacement for busybox) that and you could compile coreutils (which is basically just a bunch of individual binaries). And if osso-xterm bothers you, there is ROXterm and perhaps other terminal emulators. Did you have a specific purpose in mind or is it simply a personal preference?

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

You also have vi...

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

And vim (which comes with ex) in extras. But ed is the standard text editor.

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

Standard text editor where? You can count on vi to be everywhere you look, but not on ed.

Re: Will good ol' ed be available?
 

I was going for subtlety, but... there.