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> can't fight the jargon drift forever Within reason, yeah. But it's obnoxious to have the ambiguity, and what term do we use now for an editor that you inter
by dllthomas 3y ago
> can't fight the jargon drift forever
Within reason, yeah. But it's obnoxious to have the ambiguity, and what term do we use now for an editor that you interact with from the shell's command line (eg. sed, I guess?), or principally from its own command line (eg. ed)? While we're at it, if we're coining new terms, ideally we could distinguish those two.
sed in particular is "the streaming editor" but "streaming" isn't the category I'm looking for, which would also include something like nmh for mail (vs the traditional mail client behaving like ed, or things like mutt/pine that run in the terminal but provide more of a GUI that happens to be rendered in text).