From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 19:43:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 797A237B41D for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28113 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 03:32:45 -0000 Received: from dap-216-151-64-89.nfas.greensburg-tnt-2.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (216.151.64.89) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 03:32:45 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 08E8B48410; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:32:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , "Joe & Fhe Barbish" Cc: "FBSD Questions" Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:34:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <1j3d1j9hcw.d1j@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-Id: <20020107033253.08E8B48410@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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