Alan Shutko wrote: > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction > >> between them has long been lost. > > > > Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your > > full screen editor, or at least that's what I've always been told. > > Sure. But that distinction hasn't really been meaningful for at > least a decade, and people writing programs these days don't > necessarily follow it.
And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor interactively? Craig
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