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- A Tutorial Introduction to the \s-2UNIX\s+2 Text Editor
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- Brian W. Kernighan
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- Almost all text input on
- the
- .UX
- operating system
- is done with
- the text-editor
- .IT ed .
- This memorandum is a tutorial guide
- to help beginners get started
- with text editing.
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- Although it does not cover everything,
- it does discuss enough for most users'
- day-to-day needs.
- This includes
- printing, appending, changing, deleting, moving and inserting entire lines of text;
- reading and writing files;
- context searching and line addressing;
- the substitute command;
- the global commands;
- and the use of special characters for advanced editing.
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