Line-oriented editor
A line-oriented editor is a text editor , the commands of which relate to entire lines or line sequences of a file or a data stream that have been specially designated by the user. In contrast to today's common visual editors such as Notepad ++ or Vim , such a program does not provide the user with any direct feedback on changes made. Instead, he will only see the result after completing all commands.
One of the first line-oriented editors was Colossal Typewriter , which ran on a PDP-1 .
Well-known line-oriented editors in the Unix world are ed and ex ; Like its extension Vim , vi based on ex has an ex mode. In the MS-DOS environment, EDLIN was a common editor of this type.
This type of text editor often takes getting used to for the inexperienced. They were often used for editing texts on computers connected by a computer network. In cases where the user interface was a teletypewriter instead of a screen and PC keyboard, editing a file was often only possible with the aid of a line-oriented editor.
literature
- Robert T. Milhous et al .: Reference Manual for Generation and Analysis of Habitat Time Series: Version II . Ed .: US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. December 1990, ISSN 0895-1926 , p. 228 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 18, 2019] contains a list of commands from XEDIT, a line-oriented editor for CDC operating systems).
- Mansfield Software Group, Inc. (Ed.): KEDIT for Windows Reference Manual . Storrs December 2007 (English, kedit.com [PDF; accessed December 18, 2019] User manual for KEDIT , a line-oriented editor compatible with XEDIT).
Individual evidence
- ↑ emacs and other editors. In: Newsgroup alt.folklore.computers. November 15, 2000, accessed December 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Klaus Dette (Ed.): Computers, software and networks for teaching: The computer investment program (CIP) in practical use. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1992. ISBN 978-3-540-55026-6 . Pp. 66-68.