• 5. Text editors

    Next to files the text, especially the text files, play a major role in Unix. In this unit we look at how to edit text files. The objective of this unit is to understand what a modal text editor is and why a terminal based text editor has to be modal. Then we start learning the single-key commands used in the original Unix editor ed and its successor Vi, the Unix editor with cult status.

    This unit's commands: ed ; nano ; vi and a minimal set of Vi commands.

    • 5.1 Instructions: Text editors Page

      An editor is application software, in which you create and modify files. In a text editor you create and modify text files - not only plain text but also program source code or HTML and other mark-up source and many other files are text in its wider sense as human readable and editable files.

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    • 5.2 Video: Text editors URL
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    • 5.3 Assignment: Text editors
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    • 5.4 Test: Text editors Quiz
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