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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:21:51 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson" |
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> <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> | More suggestions. |
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> Looks good, thanks. |
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> | All of the following are usable as text editors. |
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> | less -> app-editors (I consider it a read-only editor) |
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> | ed -> app-editors (You can use it on a serial terminal nicely) |
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> | sed -> app-editors |
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> I'm strongly inclined to disagree on these three. Mmmmaybe ed. sed's |
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> definitely a sys-app. |
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Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor |
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-- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin, |
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give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout. |
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So on that basis, I'd definately consider it an editor -- albeit a not |
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so user friendly one. |
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less though, is more in a grey area. Technically it's a pager/file |
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viewer, and should be put together with more, gless, and other similar |
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apps. Perhaps a new category, app-viewers, could be made for this |
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purpose -- applications that allow viewing of various file types. |
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That's my AU$0.022 (GST Inclusive) worth :-) |
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