Editors :

  • ed - original Unix editor, you had to fetch each line into an edit are, one line at a time.

  • pico, jpico, nano - similar editors. These are often used by mail programs such as pine. They are user friendly but not very powerful.

  • ex - extended editor. A newer version of ed. It provides powerful editing through regular expressions and a visual screen editor interface.

  • vi (vim) - visual interface to the ex editor. vi uses a library called the curses package to allow you to view a screen of file at a time and use various keys to scroll through the file and apply edits at the cursor. To learn more about the vi editor, run vimtutor at the prompt.

  • emacs - emacs is very powerful editor written in lisp.

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