This is a thread dedicated to line editors. With the recent text editor threads being posted, I wanted to make one about this rare but unique type of editor I feel that line editors are true command line tools. People like to call vi/vim, nano, and emacs "command line editors" but they're actually TUIs. They don't run on the actual command line that all your other commands are run from.
So share your experiences and thoughts on these editors. Maybe you used to use edlin on an old DOS system back in the day? Maybe you use ed now?
I am gonna learn ed to familiarize myself more with the other Unix commands. Also seems fun.
Isaiah Parker
Me too. sed seem to be in many ways the same sort of thing. Although from my limited experience ed seems a lot better. you can do stuff like $-10,$ to perform an action on the last 10 lines of the file, but sed throws up an error when you try to do the same.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Ed isn't hard as I tought it would be. Probably I will transcribe a text to practice it.
Thomas Ortiz
ED IS THE STANDARD UNIX TEXT EDITOR
Hunter Foster
Is there really any reason to use ed when you are comfortable with vim?
Hudson Reyes
What edge do line editors have over TUIs? Is the capability of being used in a shell script their main advantage?
Ayden Jackson
That does appear to be their main actual advantage. I'm mostly interested in them because autism, but you make a good point. You can't exactly use vi in a script
Liam Kelly
gunna try and make a command line emacs it's already possible to send commands to emacs if there's a server via emacsclient -e
Grayson Wood
I unironically use ed for quick edits and writing small scripts.
Elijah Peterson
sam is the best line editor, its what Ken Thompson the inventor of ed uses.
You can still use vi as a line editor in ex mode
Isaac Hall
Isn't that the mouse-oriented one? or was that acme?
Christopher Cox
that was acme, acme is a completely graphical workspace environment that includes an editor
Michael Anderson
descriptions of sam seem very similar to that.
Logan Stewart
I used Edlin in early 90s. MS-DOS 3.20.
Lucas Bennett
I use edlin in 2018.
Brayden Robinson
Do you like it?
Cameron Bell
ricers are fucking hipsters
Jackson Morris
on the subject of edlin, from what i've read, 32-bit versions of windows still have it. 64-bit windows doesn't though.
William Ross
I run various DOS systems in VirtualBox. That's how I use edlin.
