edit

1. The cutting and arranging of shots.
2. In the different stages, or at the completion of editing the edited film itself can be referred to as "the cut" or "the edit."

Glossary of Film Terms - http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/
reprinted with permission

Although version 1.0 has a copyright date of 1987; I believe that this is retrospective, and that it was first included with DOS V5.0 as late as 1991 - before which EDLIN was the standard DOS editor. It will work with versions of DOS back to 2.0.

Edit is, IMHO, superior to Windows Notepad - the interface is friendlier (the default text colours are a soothing light grey on dark blue, and the look'n'feel were similar to Borland's 'Turbo' range of programming languages), and it has marginally more '3l33t' status, if anything running under DOS these days could be said to possess cool.

Ed"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n. Editing.] [F. 'editer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.]

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

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