Types of Editors

Essential editor features

• Scrolling, view modes, current position in the file
• Navigation (char, word, line, pattern)
• Insert, Replace, Delete
• Cut-Copy-Paste
• Search-Replace
• Language-aware syntax highlighting
• Key-maps, init scripts, macros
• Plugins

ed Editor

• Command Format → [starting-address[,ending-address]command[command-parameters]]