ed

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with ed, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Editing text in psql is awkward, so the user drops into vim instead2022-07-07
Command-line editor with no real-time view of text is hard to use2019-05-28
Manual is chaotic and does not start from basics, hard to learn commands2018-05-12
Inserting or wrapping text requires many clunky multi-step command sequences2016-12-06
Hard to use as an emergency editor without knowing special keys2012-06-16