On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:01, Scott Rohling wrote:
>When you say 'line editor' - that's exactly what you are forced to use..
>for example sed.
>
>You won't be able to use a 'fullscreen' editor unless you use an ascii
>console.. vi/vim/nano are all fullscreen editors.
Actually, sed is a "script editor". The classic line editor is ed.
And vi is the "visual editor". Why it wasn't called "ved", I don't know. :-)
- MacK.
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