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ged-1.20.2

GNU version of standard text editor

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Description

GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

Package information

Ports path
editors/ged
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Pascal Stumpf <pascal@stumpf.co>
Categories
editors
Available flavors
None listed

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