"EDIT" TEXT EDITOR Edit is the name of a version of the editor ex which is designed for beginning or casual users. When the editor is invoked as "edit" rather than as "ex" the default setting of certain options is changed, making the editing environment less complicated and more informative. Edit is the recommended editor for people who are learning text editing. Users who have experience with an editor such as ed or nex may also prefer to use edit, but they should be aware that the option settings of edit introduce some differences in the way the editor behaves. The option settings which differ in edit are: nomagic: When the "magic" option is set (as in ex), several characters have special meanings in regular expressions (the character strings specified when searching the buffer or indicating the characters to be changed by a substitute command). However, in edit the "nomagic" option in effect, and only the characters $ ^ \ have special meanings. In this respect, edit is different from the editor ed as well as from ex. noopen: This option prevents the user from accidently entering open and visual modes, in which the editor behaves quite differently than in normal command mode. notify=1: The editor gives feedback whenever a command modifies more than a specified number of lines, set to 1 line in edit. With ex, the user is not notified unless the number of lines modified is greater than 5. Type "help ex" for more information about ex.