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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:34:31 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Editors in base FBSD
Message-ID:  <20020107033253.08E8B48410@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <1j3d1j9hcw.d1j@localhost.localdomain>

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On 06 Jan 2002 15:42:23 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>> I know of vi and ee = very primitive and just primitive 
>> that are part of the base. Are there any others?  
>
>Using "man -k edit" reveals "ex", "vi", "view", "sed".
>There's also "ed", the command-line basis of "vi".
>Sometimes these are best: cat, echo, awk, tr, head, tail, ...


>P.S.  I think your jargon is not quite correct.  "Command-line editors"
>are ones which accept commands only a line at a time, like "ed".  (Mouse
>support for those too is available with "moused" or in X11, I guess.)
>"Advanced" editors were called "full-screen editors", though the term
>isn't seen much lately since it's generally synonomous with "editor" now.

man, where is EDLIN about when you need it!!???.

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