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- NAME
- ied.c and eed.sh - a package to allow full-screen interactive editing
- of environment variables under the Bourne shell.
-
- SYNOPSIS
- ied [string]
- eed name
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Ied reads a string (either from its first argument, or, if there
- are no arguments, from stdin), presents it for full-screen
- interactive editing, and prints the edited string to stdout.
-
- The user may press ESCAPE during the edit, in which case
- the string is returned unchanged.
-
- Eed is a Bourne shell function which uses ied to edit an
- environment variable.
-
- EXIT STATUS
- Ied exits with status 1 if the passed string exceeds the
- maximum allowable length (currently 76 characters), and
- with status 0 otherwise.
-
- AUTHOR
- Richard Reiner
- rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca
- 22 Aug 90
-
- BUGS
- There should be support for arbitrary-length strings.
- Shell scripts should be supplied for other shells.