On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:40:01 +1000 Stuart Longland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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? Both are primarily used as core system utilities, not as editors, so they stay in sys-apps.
Yes... but in the "core utility role" what does sed and ed do? Edit files & streams. They are scripted editors -- and should be recognised as such.
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