The standard text editor on Gata General mini-computers running AOS |
The standard text editor on Data General mini-computers running AOS |
The standard text editor on Data General mini-computers running AOS
Author: Data General Corporation Homepage: Family: MiniComputerFamily Platform: AOS License: Commercial
SED [path]
SED is a program and not a CLI command and therefore run as XEQ SED ... [path] is the file to be edited. The SED inner prompt is '*'.
SED is a text editor for creating and modifying files. SED's help facility is accessible by typing HELP from SED:
ESCAPES ADD TEXT CHANGE TEXT DELETE TEXT LISTINGS POSITIONING
EXECUTE APPEND MODIFY DELETE LIST POSITION HELP INSERT REPLACE MOVE VIEW FIND SAVE DUPLICATE SUBSTITUTE JOIN PRINT UNDO SPLIT CUT PASTE
EXITING MISC HELP WORDS
ABANDON CLEAR CURSOR_CONTROL ADDRESS BYE DIRECTORY RANGE SOURCE CLI DISPLAY SEARCH_STRING DESTINATION DO SET KEYS SYNTAX SPELL SWITCHES
SED's line editing keys are:
Ctrl-A Move to end of line. Ctrl-B Move to end of last word. Ctrl-E Toggle insert mode. Ctrl-F Move to start of next word. Ctrl-H Move to beginning of line. Ctrl-I A tab. Ctrl-K Erase everything right of cursor (like in EMACS). Ctrl-X Move on character to the right. Ctrl-Y Move on character to the left. Ctrl-U Delete entire line.
The commands are mostly self explanatory, but the format is something like this. Suppose you want to modify line #12, you'd write MODIFY 12, which will put you on line 12. Use the control keys to move about and edit the line, then press Return! If you don't press return but just escape back to the SED prompt, your changes will be lost!
The same goes for most commands, if you need help, just type HELP COMMAND from the SED '*' prompt.
/ED=dir Finds the SED .ED files in dir. /NO_ED Don't use .ED files. /NO_FORM_FEEDS
Strip form feeds from the file./NO_RECREATE
Don't reset the date of the file after changing it./NO_SCREEN
Don't update the console automatically./PROFILE=path
path is the SED startup file, that contains legal SED commands./WORK=dir
Use this directory for SED temporary files.