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rec-mode is a mode for browsing and editing recfiles, which are text files containing data structured in fields and records. It is part of the GNU recutils1 suite.
Recfiles are text-based databases which are easy to read and write manually using a text editor. At the same time they feature enough structure so they can be read, edited and processed automatically by programs.