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		raverbashing on Feb 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users Yeah but can you edit text? You can only input it. Readline and shell edit commands are a better text editor than simply cat. `echo "Your text here edited as you want" > edited.txt`

classified on Feb 6, 2020 [–]

You are right of course, I was just aiming for the simplest possible editor. Would you agree that having support for backspace still just barely counts as editing?

Drakar1903 on Feb 6, 2020 | [–]

Only in the same way as when you can write down 10^20 as 10+10+10+10+10+...

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