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!!???. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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