Line editor

A line-oriented editor is a text editor that works in text mode and is operated primarily with the keyboard, without mouse. In contrast to usual today, so-called visual editors such as Notepad or Vim such a program can only work with commands, the user sees the text that they're working on, not.

Known line-oriented editors in the Unix world for example ed and ex; that has to ex -based vi as a Vim command line mode. In the MS- DOS world this is the most popular editor of this genus EDLIN.

This kind of text editors is often unfamiliar to novices to use. They are primarily used for editing text on connected through a computer network computers.

• Editor ( software)