Edit User's Guide and Reference Manual

The RETURN Key
Introduction to EDIT
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Using the Line Editor You can think of line editing as interactive—or conversational—editing.
You and EDIT have a conversation about the lines of text in your file. You
communicate with EDIT by typing commands and text, then pressing
RETURN . EDIT responds by doing what you tell it to and by displaying
prompts at your terminal. Figure 1 illustrates the concept of line editing
with the EDIT program.
The EDIT Prompt Once you have started the EDIT program from your command interpreter
prompt, you’ll receive the EDIT prompt (an asterisk). You can type any
EDIT command at the asterisk. After typing a command line or a new line
of text, press RETURN to tell EDIT to execute what you have typed.
The RETURN Key This manual presents examples that show how EDIT works. In many of
them, an imaginary user types in commands or text in response to prompts
or queries. As mentioned previously, you must press RETURN after you type
a command line or line of text. Therefore, in the examples, there is an
implicit RETURN at the end of each window of user input. For those cases
when the user just needs to press RETURN , the boxed word RETURN is all
that appears beside the asterisk prompt.