FILe Generator and Editor

An acronym for FILe Generator and Editor, FILGE was a command-oriented text editor created by CompuServe in the early 1970s. Its many commands were preceded by a slash (/) character. For example, if a text file contained the line: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The word 'fox' could be replaced with 'wolf' using this command: /c/fox/wolf To see the result of the edit, the user could type: /p and in this case, would see The quick brown wolf jumps over the lazy dog * v * t * e

FILe Generator and Editor

An acronym for FILe Generator and Editor, FILGE was a command-oriented text editor created by CompuServe in the early 1970s. Its many commands were preceded by a slash (/) character. For example, if a text file contained the line: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The word 'fox' could be replaced with 'wolf' using this command: /c/fox/wolf To see the result of the edit, the user could type: /p and in this case, would see The quick brown wolf jumps over the lazy dog * v * t * e