I was too. Not having used ed by necessity since a hilariously bad upgrade from Solaris 7 to 9 left me without a compiler in ... 2001?, I'd argue that line editing is most definitely a lost art.
Oh, come on, a book by a well-known author was released last year [1], there is a lively Twitter account [2] and... I personally use it almost daily for some task or another. I wish there was a Ubuntu package for the line mode browser of yore [3]... though I admit I wouldn't use it almost daily!
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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Mastery-Standard-Unix-Editor/dp/16...
[2] https://twitter.com/ed1conf
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
I can't imagine the sequence of events between my current life, and a life as even a part-time line editor.