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)