An ELM-editor summary

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <25094 at adm.brl.mil> david at rolf.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) writes:
>At last I can summarize the great search for a bare-bones, stripped-
>down ascii editor for ELM, the ELectronic Mail program (thanks for 
>the correction to lyman at Inference.COM and wuxing at comp.mscs.mu.edu!).  

Of course, what all applications are SUPPOSED to do is to honor the EDITOR
environment variable, and if it is not set, invoke /bin/ed.  Any special
text editor you may wish to provide would have its name set as the value
of EDITOR before starting the application.

Does /bin/ed really not exist on some system?