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what is a line editor?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-21 21:00

Ive asked a lot of people this question and have never get a straight answer. If you do a web search you will see the same bullshit definition over and over, that it is an editor that only edited one line at a time before the advent of monitors. So can someone tell me exactly what you are physically looking at when using a line editor? If there is no screen what is the text being displayed on?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-21 21:44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_editor

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-21 21:51

>>2
a computer operator typically interacted with a teletype (essentially a printer with a keyboard), with no video display,

Commands and text, and corresponding output from the editor, will scroll up from the bottom of the screen in the order that they are entered or printed to the screen.
yep, wikipedia's description sounds pretty consistent

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-21 23:02

man ed

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 2:49

>>1
Why don't you just try one out and see?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 2:55

>>4,5
Exactly.
Quit whining, OP, and go mess around with one instead.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 3:07

What's an ``ive''?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 3:13

>>7
It's obviously his name, don't be dense.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 3:47

>>7
fuck you, grammer cockhole.
kill you're self please

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 6:17

>>9
get the fuck out

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:07

>>10
Back to /digg/ please.
Here in /prog/ we treat grammar nazis as the attention whoring scum they are

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:29

>>11
Oh god, it's that guy again.
If what you say is true, how come there are/have been some prominent descriptivist activists at /prog/ while you really can't pin down separate ``grammar nazis''?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:35

>>12
You're wrong.
You lose.
Quit crying, you're embarrassing yourself, troll

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:37

>>12
in other words you're saying:
i like to pleasure my anus with a thesaurus.
and
i always dreamed of sucking my english teacher's cock
freak

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:38

>>12
Says the banana thickshake politician.
If I was eating at macdonalds I would not order your happymeal.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:42

>>11-15
OKAY YOU FUQIN ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:43

>>16
translation:
you caused slight annoyance to a first year CS student.
also, cocks

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:44

>>17
Hey, fuck you, buddy.
I am you, buddy.
I never slept with your sister, that was just a rumour.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 7:49

>>11-19 are Xarn.
This whole thread is only inside Xarn's head.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 8:20

Fuck he's back.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 8:22

>>20
Who's back?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 8:30

>>21
>>19

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 8:33

>>22
But the /prog/ I know has always loved Xarn.
Why would you be annoyed if he's back?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 8:54

>>23
>>19 is most likely the anti-Xarn bitcher.

Name: 19 2010-11-22 11:33

>>24
You are incorrect and also HBTI.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:34

>>24
No, I have yet to post any new comments about our favorite wet-behind-the-ears, mama's boy, tree hugging, pansy ass, takes it up the ass faggot, diaper wetting, liberal.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:44

>>5
Why don't you just try one out and see?
>>6
Exactly.
Quit whining, OP, and go mess around with one instead.
WTF?? did you see the wikipedia definition I posted? here it is again:
a computer operator typically interacted with a teletype (essentially a printer with a keyboard), with no video display
a TELETYPE, did you get that?? where the fuck do I find a teletype to try a line editor? And ed is just a program that runs on a line editor. Admittedly I dont know exactly what Im talking about here because no one has given me an exact definition yet of what a line editor is

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:50

>>27
$ man ed

DESCRIPTION
       ed is a line-oriented text editor.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:52

You can try ed or edlin.  vi despite being full screen has a lot of line editor traits.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:52

It's a man who proofreads short pieces of text.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:56

>TELETYPE, did you get that?? where the fuck do I find a teletype to try a line editor?

You don't need a teletype.  You can just use a regular monitor, just imagine the text is getting spit out of an old daisy wheel printer if you need to.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 11:56

>>29
Ive tried ed and I use vim

my original question was what the actual hardware is, but I give up, Im just not getting through here

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 12:12

>>32
Well fuck you, Ive.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 12:15

>>32
A line editor is a program that can be run on (amongst other computers) a teletype due to its line-oriented operation.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 12:18

>>31
>>34
ok, I sort of get it now, thx

Name: VIPPER 2010-11-22 13:17

JEWS did this thread.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-22 18:41

a line editor is a very simple vector graphics program.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-04 16:02

Don't change these.
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