Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:40:01 +1000 Stuart Longland
> <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org> wrote:
> | 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? Both are primarily used as core system utilities, not as editors, so
> they stay in sys-apps.
>

Yes... but in the "core utility role" what does sed and ed do?  Edit
files & streams.  They are scripted editors -- and should be recognised
as such.

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