3 ms·
World's simplest text editor is: $ cat > edited.txt Enter text, hit ^D when you're done. If you pray hard enough, Google will find a way to let you do that
by classified 7y ago
World's simplest text editor is:
$ cat > edited.txt
Enter text, hit ^D when you're done.
If you pray hard enough, Google will find a way to let you do that in a browser, so someone can count MAUs.
- raverbashing 7y agoYeah but can you edit text? You can only input it. Readline and shell edit commands are a better text editor than simply cat. echo "Your text here edited as you want" > edited.txt
- classified 7y agoYou are right of course, I was just aiming for the simplest possible editor. Would you agree that having support for backspace still just barely counts as editing?
- Drakar1903 7y agoOnly in the same way as when you can write down 10^20 as 10+10+10+10+10+...
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]