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context-driven line editor

context-driven line editor

[′kän‚tekst ‚driv·ən ′līn ‚ed·əd·ər]
(computer science)
A line editor in which the user need not know or keep track of line numbers but can call up text by line content; the computer will then search for the indicated pattern.
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