Apps similar to ed include Traditional Ex - Vi editor, which is free and open source. Other options are Z-VI and ved. In total there are three Text Editors like ed for Windows, Linux and Mac.
The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...
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ved is a drop-in clone of ed, the original Unix line editor, that keeps strict compatibility but replaces ed's silence and one-character errors with plain-English messages and long-form aliases. Pure-stdlib Rust, zero dependencies, hand-written BRE engine.
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