On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:21:51 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | More suggestions.
Looks good, thanks.
| All of the following are usable as text editors. | less -> app-editors (I consider it a read-only editor) | ed -> app-editors (You can use it on a serial terminal nicely) | sed -> app-editors
I'm strongly inclined to disagree on these three. Mmmmaybe ed. sed's definitely a sys-app.
Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin, give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout.
So on that basis, I'd definately consider it an editor -- albeit a not so user friendly one.
less though, is more in a grey area. Technically it's a pager/file viewer, and should be put together with more, gless, and other similar apps. Perhaps a new category, app-viewers, could be made for this purpose -- applications that allow viewing of various file types.
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