line editor
<tool, text> An early kind of text editor suited to use on a teletype.
The user enters editing commands which apply to the current line or some given
range of lines. These include moving forward and backward through the buffer,
inserting and deleting lines, substituting a string for a pattern match, and
printing lines. Visual feedback is restricted to explicitly requesting the
display of one or more lines, in contrast to a screen editor.
ed is Unix's line editor.
(1999-03-01)
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line editor » line feed » line noise » line
printer
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