Re: The GDEs

On 2009-09-02, Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Would you call ed a CLI editor? I would, but perhaps others would not.

I'm not gonna sit here and split hairs over what contitutes a command
line editor. I know damn well what one is.

Besides, I just remembered who John Hasler is. Some twit who will
hassle you to death of over inane minutia. I suspect another AC sock
puppet. You play with him. I'm not interested.




vi is a visual editor with a built-in CLI (ex), so it's a bit of a
hybrid editor. You can even start vim, at least, in CLI mode by running
it as ex or as vim -e. (I think you can do similar things with elvis and
vi, but haven't used them in a while.) But I'd agree that vi is not
strictly a CLI editor.

All of the above could very broadly be called console editors, since
they all work at a console. Contrast with something like nedit, which
requires X11. (Or gvim, though vim -g will restart as vim if X11 is not
available.)

--keith


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