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.. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
