A programmable text editor

While operating system command languages have improved in recent years, the advances have not yet been widely applied to other command interpreters. This paper describes an editor that has been given two features popular in operating system command languages — i/o redirection and programmable command files. The result is suited both to editing and to some repetitive reformatting tasks often solved by one‐shot, ad hoc programs. Examples display the utility of the extensions, and implications for still other command interpreters are discussed.