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From: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Uses for Edit
Summary: Filters
Message-ID: <3953@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 00:24:07 GMT
References: <6735@ecsvax.UUCP> <86@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Not having my manuals here at work, I'll have to trust
my memory that the "Edit" program is the predominantly
non-visual-mode editor (`sed' to Ed's `vi').  Reasoning
by analogy, I'd imagine that Edit was intended for automated
(script-driven) edits and filters of text files.

Maybe the newer text editors with Rexx ports can be used
for such things, but vi sure can't be.

Just guessing,

Brian Rhodefer ...!tektronix!tekig5!brianr