Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:21:51 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson"
> <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | More suggestions.
>
> Looks good, thanks.
>
> | All of the following are usable as text editors.
> | less -> app-editors (I consider it a read-only editor)
> | ed -> app-editors (You can use it on a serial terminal nicely)
> | sed -> app-editors
>
> I'm strongly inclined to disagree on these three. Mmmmaybe ed. sed's
> definitely a sys-app.

Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor
-- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin,
give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout.

So on that basis, I'd definately consider it an editor -- albeit a not
so user friendly one.

less though, is more in a grey area.  Technically it's a pager/file
viewer, and should be put together with more, gless, and other similar
apps.  Perhaps a new category, app-viewers, could be made for this
purpose -- applications that allow viewing of various file types.

That's my AU$0.022 (GST Inclusive) worth :-)
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