An acronym for FILe Generator and Editor, FILGE was a command-oriented
text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be us ...
created by
CompuServe
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the oth ...
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''
There were many other commands, which later including a repeating capability, which allow significant file manipulations to be performed without the need to write special programs. FILGE was replaced by screen-oriented
WYSIWYG
In computing, WYSIWYG ( ), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed d ...
editors.
CompuServe
Text editors
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