man ex gives me the man page for vi. ex being an short way to start up vi and put it in "ex mode".
And when I try "ex", yep, that's vi <G>. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Jack Woehr <j...@well.com> 1/28/2009 12:58 PM >>> Tom Duerbusch wrote: > What is a good line mode editor? > ex is the traditional Unix line mode editor, written for just such environments. It's the dark side of vi :) man ex -- Jack J. Woehr # I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
