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1.1     ! root        1: .TH EX 1 "26 August 1980"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: ex, edit \- text editor
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B ex
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B \-
        !             9: ] [
        !            10: .B \-v
        !            11: ] [
        !            12: .B \-t 
        !            13: tag
        !            14: ] [
        !            15: .B \-r
        !            16: ] [
        !            17: \fB\+\fIcommand\fR
        !            18: ] [
        !            19: .B \-l
        !            20: ]
        !            21: name ...
        !            22: .br
        !            23: .B edit
        !            24: [
        !            25: ex options
        !            26: ]
        !            27: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            28: .I Ex
        !            29: is the root of a family of editors:
        !            30: .I edit,
        !            31: .I ex
        !            32: and
        !            33: .I vi.
        !            34: .I Ex
        !            35: is a superset of
        !            36: .I ed,
        !            37: with the most notable extension being a display editing facility.
        !            38: Display based editing is the focus of
        !            39: .I vi.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: If you have not used
        !            42: .I ed,
        !            43: or are a casual user, you will find that the editor
        !            44: .I edit
        !            45: is convenient for you.
        !            46: It avoids some of the complexities of
        !            47: .I ex
        !            48: used mostly by systems programmers and persons very familiar with
        !            49: .I ed.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: If you have a \s-2CRT\s0 terminal, you may wish to use a display
        !            52: based editor; in this case
        !            53: see
        !            54: .IR vi (1),
        !            55: which is a command which focuses on the display editing portion of
        !            56: .I ex.
        !            57: .SH DOCUMENTATION
        !            58: The document
        !            59: .I "Edit: A tutorial"
        !            60: provides a comprehensive introduction to
        !            61: .I edit
        !            62: assuming no previous knowledge of computers or the \s-2UNIX\s0 system.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: The
        !            65: .I "Ex Reference Manual \- Version 3.5"
        !            66: is a comprehensive and complete manual for the command mode features
        !            67: of
        !            68: .I ex,
        !            69: but you cannot learn to use the editor by reading it.
        !            70: For an introduction to
        !            71: more advanced forms of editing using the command mode of
        !            72: .I ex
        !            73: see the editing documents written by Brian Kernighan for the editor
        !            74: .I ed;
        !            75: the material in the introductory and advanced documents works also with
        !            76: .I ex.
        !            77: .PP
        !            78: .I "An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi"
        !            79: introduces the display editor
        !            80: .I vi
        !            81: and provides reference material on
        !            82: .I vi.
        !            83: All of these documents can be found in volume 2c of the Programmer's Manual.
        !            84: In addition, the
        !            85: .I "Vi Quick Reference"
        !            86: card summarizes the commands
        !            87: of
        !            88: .I vi
        !            89: in a useful, functional way, and is useful with the
        !            90: .I Introduction.
        !            91: .SH FILES
        !            92: .DT
        !            93: /usr/lib/ex?.?strings          error messages
        !            94: .br
        !            95: /usr/lib/ex?.?recover          recover command
        !            96: .br
        !            97: /usr/lib/ex?.?preserve         preserve command
        !            98: .br
        !            99: /etc/termcap                   describes capabilities of terminals
        !           100: .br
        !           101: ~/.exrc                                editor startup file
        !           102: .br
        !           103: /tmp/Ex\fInnnnn\fR                     editor temporary
        !           104: .br
        !           105: /tmp/Rx\fInnnnn\fR                     named buffer temporary
        !           106: .br
        !           107: /usr/preserve                  preservation directory
        !           108: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           109: awk(1), ed(1), grep(1), sed(1), grep(1), vi(1), termcap(5), environ(7)
        !           110: .SH AUTHOR
        !           111: Originally written by William Joy
        !           112: .br
        !           113: Mark Horton has maintained the editor since version 2.7, adding macros,
        !           114: support for many unusual terminals,
        !           115: and other features such as word abbreviation mode.
        !           116: .SH BUGS
        !           117: The
        !           118: .I undo
        !           119: command causes all marks to be lost on lines changed and then restored
        !           120: if the marked lines were changed.
        !           121: .PP
        !           122: .I Undo
        !           123: never clears the buffer modified condition.
        !           124: .PP
        !           125: The
        !           126: .I z
        !           127: command prints a number of logical rather than physical lines.
        !           128: More than a screen full of output may result if long lines are present.
        !           129: .PP
        !           130: File input/output errors don't print a name if the command line \fB`\-'\fR
        !           131: option is used.
        !           132: .PP
        !           133: There is no easy way to do a single scan ignoring case.
        !           134: .PP
        !           135: The editor does not warn if text is placed in named buffers and not used
        !           136: before exiting the editor.
        !           137: .PP
        !           138: Null characters are discarded in input files, and cannot appear in resultant
        !           139: files.

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