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ex the extended line-oriented text editor for Unix is a personality of the vi program. The program has a synonym e in HP-Unix environments. The ex program personality is more or less identical to the edit program with the exception that some switches and options are modified so that they are more user-friendly.
Switches ex recognises the following switches:
- (obsolete) suppresses user-interactive feedback -s (XPG4 only) suppresses user-interactive feedback -l sets lisp editor option -r recover specified files after a system crash -R sets readonly -t tag Edit the file containing the specified tag -v invoke visual mode (vi) -w set window size n -x set encryption mode -C encryption option file specifies file to be edited
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Ex (editor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (219 words)
ex is similar to ed, with the exception that some switches and options are modified so that they are more user-friendly. ex was eventually given a screen oriented visual interface (adding to its command line oriented operation), thereby becoming the vi text editor. In recent times, ex is implemented as a personality of the vi program; most variants of vi still have an "ex mode", which is invoked using the command
Ex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (176 words)
In English, Ex is a common spelling of the English name of the letter X. In typesetting, one ex is the height of the lowercase letter 'x' in a given font; see x-height. In social relationships, an ex (relationship) is someone with whom a person was once associated, often romantically.
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