tldr/pages/common/ed.md
Agniva De Sarker 3da76e4150 Applying the snake_case convention throughout the repo (#967)
* Applying the snake_case convention throughout the repo

- Also removing the file extension where not needed
- Adding {{ }} on a few old pages

* Addressing concerns

- Added {{ }} where they were missed out
- Removed spaces inside {{ }}
- Reverting "file" to "filename" to make it clearer

* Fixing the comments on nc page
2016-07-22 22:24:06 +02:00

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ed

The original Unix text editor.

  • Start ed, editing an empty document (which can be saved as a new file in the current directory):

ed

  • Start ed, editing an empty document, with : as a command prompt indicator:

ed -p :

  • Start ed editing an existing file (this shows the byte count of the loaded file):

ed -p : {{path/to/file}}

  • Toggle the printing of error explanations. (By default, explanations are not printed and only a ? appears):

H

  • Add text to the current document. Mark completion by entering a period by itself in a new line:

a<Enter>{{text_to_insert}}<Enter>.

  • Print the entire document (, is a shortcut to the range 1,$ which covers the start to the end of the document):

,p

  • Write the current document to a new file (the filename can be omitted if ed was called with an existing file):

w {{filename}}

  • Quit ed:

q