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RE: Inline text editor?



On 07-Aug-2002 Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm looking for an editor that can read data data from STDIN until it
> receives an EOF, allow the user to edit it, then write the results back out
> to STDOUT.  In particular, I wish to decrypt a file with PGP, edit the
> plaintext results, then encrypt the edited version - without using temporary
> files.  I can't think of any particularly elegant means of doing so with my
> standard repertoire (vi, Emacs).  Has anyone else already solved this
> problem?

sed -> stream editor.  Solved about 15+ years ago (-:



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