Editing Hard copy (section)

== "Dead-tree" dysphemism ==
{{wiktionary|dead tree}}

The hacker's ''[[Jargon File]]'' defines a ''dead-tree version'' to be a paper version of an online document, where the phrase "dead trees" refers to [[paper]].

A saying from the ''Jargon File'' is that ''"You can't [[grep]] dead trees"'', which comes from the [[Unix]] command {{code|grep}}, which searches the contents of text files. This means that there is an advantage to keeping documents in digital form, rather than on paper, so that they can be more easily searched for specific contents. A similar entry in the ''Jargon File'' is "tree-killer", which may refer to either a printer or a person who wastes paper.

''Dead-tree edition'' refers to a printed paper version of a written work, as opposed to digital alternatives such as a [[web page]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead-tree|title=Definition of DEAD-TREE|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-21}}</ref>