Batch text editor for CP/M

[Pellatonian]

Could anybody point me to an CP/M text editor I could use in batch mode: ie: in a submit file.

I've looked at ED but it seems it needs interactive input to handle mass changes on different length files - but maybe I'm wrong.

[Douglas Miller]

In theory, you could use ED in combination with XSUB so that you can script the ED commands. I've recently been looking into SUBMIT and believe it has a limit of 128 lines in a SUB file, so that may limit how much editing you can do. I forget if ED supports robust enough commands to allow you to alter a file if you don't already know exactly what it looks like (compared to things like ed/sed in Unix/Linux). There have been projects over the years to backport some Unix utils to CP/M. I know there have been ones for 'vi', but am not sure about ed/sed.