HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 21)

1 Introduction to EDIT
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The EDIT Program EDIT is a text editing program. A text editor is a tool that lets you use a
terminal to write documents and store them on the computer. Depending
on your needs, the documents that you write might be business
correspondence, a letter, or an entire manual; more advanced uses of EDIT
might be creating an OBEY file or the source text of a computer program.
You use a terminal and EDIT to:
Create an EDIT file
Type a document in an EDIT file
Make changes and corrections to the document in the EDIT file
Start TEDIT (a more advanced Tandem editor) from a product that
starts EDIT by default
The computer system stores the EDIT file on disk. At any time, the writer
can use the text editor from any terminal connected to the computer system
to make changes and corrections to this EDIT file.
Writing and Editing
With EDIT
Writing a document using EDIT is different from writing a document using
a typewriter and paper. With EDIT, editing what you write is easy:
You can correct mistakes and make changes as you write.
You can return to your document at any time to correct mistakes and
make changes.
The editing you do can be as simple as correcting typing mistakes or as
sophisticated as moving lines of text from one document into another. For
example, you can use EDIT to write the lines:
He who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell,
Will never reap the golden prize
Like him who learns to advertise.