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A generalized text editor

By Christopher W. Fraser
Communications of the ACM, March 1980, Vol. 23 No. 3, Pages 154-158
10.1145/358826.358834
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Text is not the only data that needs editing; for example, file deletion utilities edit directories. If all “editors” used the same command language, they would be easier to learn, remember, and code. This paper describes a generalized editor that edits text, directories, binary core images, and certain operating system data with a single user interface.

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