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The standard text editor on Gata General mini-computers running AOS

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UNDO SPLIT
CUT
PASTE

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 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.