Annotation of 43BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L11.2a, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: #print
                      2: So far I have always put you into the editor.
                      3: How do you get there yourself?  The main command
                      4: interpreter (the shell) recognizes
                      5:   ex
                      6: as the name of the editor.
                      7: You can also say
                      8:   ex file1
                      9: which puts you in the editor with the current file
                     10: "file1".  So, for example, you can print the
                     11: last line of a file with
                     12:   ex NAME
                     13:   $p
                     14:   w
                     15:   q
                     16: where NAME is the name of the file.
                     17: 
                     18: In this directory is a file named "file45".  Print the
                     19: last line of it, and then exit as above.
                     20: #create Ref
                     21: :this line, the last line.
                     22: #create file45
                     23: This file contains nothing
                     24: of great importance and
                     25: you should not be printing
                     26: these lines because the only
                     27: line that you were asked for
                     28: was
                     29: this line, the last line.
                     30: #copyout
                     31: #user
                     32: #uncopyout
                     33: grep last .ocopy >X1
                     34: #cmp X1 Ref
                     35: #log
                     36: #next
                     37: 11.2b 10
                     38: 12.2a 5

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