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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


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?


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




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