Whoops, forgot.  It's called ed. For editor, very UNIX

Erik Johnson.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Erik N Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a text editor.  THE text editor, by some reckoning :-D (it
> was the very first unix text editor, vi's command mode: ex is modeled
> on this.)  I use it for very quick things, it's like sed but
> interactive.  You're going to have to read about it a bit, this is the
> opposite of intuitive.  However, it is the simplest text editor of all
> time.  You need to learn a few simple commands to get started.  The
> first and most important is q for quit.
>
> Erik Johnson
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Ryan McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was just in text editor hell.  Network access was down to to our Linux 
>> guest so I loaded  up x3270 and was able to get to the host.  I needed to 
>> make a simple edit to a text file when I realized vi doesn't work. DOH!
>>
>> Is there an alternative to vi?  I was having to echo text into files, grep 
>> -v, etc. etc.
>>
>> Thanks..
>>
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