bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) (02/24/91)
In article <23887@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes: >In article <15353@megatest.UUCP> pat@megatest.UUCP (Patrick Powers) writes: >}I worked on a UNIX system that had an editor called e. Once entered > >Hey! That's my favorite editor. I'm using it now, in fact. The "highly Actually, a good, solid, control-D will get you out, as well. Umm, it seems to have come with my local Ultrix, but I have no documentation. Anyone care to send me a man-page? --Blair "If the domain is public, the range is infinite."
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (02/26/91)
>>}I worked on a UNIX system that had an editor called e. Once entered >> >>Hey! That's my favorite editor. I'm using it now, in fact. The "highly > >Actually, a good, solid, control-D will get you out, as well. > >Umm, it seems to have come with my local Ultrix, but I have >no documentation. Anyone care to send me a man-page? auspex% ls -li /usr/ucb/e /usr/ucb/ex 2184 -rwxr-xr-x 6 root 196608 Apr 24 1989 /usr/ucb/e 2184 -rwxr-xr-x 6 root 196608 Apr 24 1989 /usr/ucb/ex from a SunOS 4.0.3 machine, but the fact that they're links to the same binary comes from BSD, as does the man page EX(1): EX(1) USER COMMANDS EX(1) NAME ex, edit, e - line editor and the basic code in "main()": /* * Main procedure. Process arguments and then * transfer control to the main command processing loop * in the routine commands. We are entered as either "ex", "edit", "vi" * or "view" and the distinction is made here. Actually, we are "vi" if * there is a 'v' in our name, "view" is there is a 'w', and "edit" if * there is a 'd' in our name. For edit we just diddle options; * for vi we actually force an early visual command. */ ... /* * Figure out how we were invoked: ex, edit, vi, view. */ ivis = any('v', av[0]); /* "vi" */ if (any('w', av[0])) /* "view" */ value(READONLY) = 1; if (any('d', av[0])) { /* "edit" */ value(OPEN) = 0; value(REPORT) = 1; value(MAGIC) = 0; } so I suspect the answer on Ultrix, as well, is "it's just another name for 'ex'".