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I think you'd call that line... appending? Definitely not line editing though.

• bitwize 4y ago
  There were line editing features in micro BASICs though. Some early versions of Microsoft BASIC let you say EDIT 10 and be taken into an edit mode, where vaguely vi-like, but more perhaps TECO-like, keyboard commands let you change the line by inserting, deleting, swapping, etc. characters. The Commodore BASICs let you just cursor up to the line on the screen and change it, and when you hit enter the interpreter just read the screen at that line and accepted it as the new line. There were smarts in there to detect wrapped lines and accept the whole thing. Despite being more primitive it was a huge UI win, so GW-BASIC adopted this approach as well.
  • unsafecast 4y ago
    TIL, thanks!