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Do a man on ed
Authored by: betabug on Mar 28, '02 05:53:29AM

Wow, you've got some things messed up. man is looking up
manual pages, ed is an editor. No relation.



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Do a man on ed
Authored by: babbage on Mar 28, '02 12:52:52PM
The relation is that ed, as a low level line oriented editor, provides functionality that can be embedded in higher level tools. The most obvious tool that I know for a fact is a high-level wrapper around ed is plain old vi, but the functionality of tools like more is similar enough to ed that it's at least plausible that the "editor" is embedded in the pager. Even if it's not literally embedded, clearly the interface has been copied and much of the the behavior is identical, so thinking of them as being of the same heritage is useful -- it helps you transport keystrokes from tools you already know to tools that you're still learning about.

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