John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> writes:

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

Thanks, very nice article.

Same here, thanks for the pointer, Spiros!

I had forgot about em

I never KNEW about "em". Also, it was not on my radar that "ed" (and, I
checked this later, "ex" and "vi") are part of POSIX.

While browsing, I also found

https://softpanorama.org/Articles/orthodox_editors.shtml

which mention a whole bunch of (unknown to me) editor beasts, XEDIT,
KEDIT, The Hessling Editor, ...

From a quick read, they seem to have mostly died/may be still live in
very small niches occupied by former IBM and OS/2 people. Comments on
these "Eastern Orthodox Editors"?

Best regards

Axel

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On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:48:54 +0200, Axel Reichert wrote:

While browsing, I also found

https://softpanorama.org/Articles/orthodox_editors.shtml

which mention a whole bunch of (unknown to me) editor beasts, XEDIT,
KEDIT, The Hessling Editor, ...

Not sure if that “XEDIT” is the same as the xedit in this package <https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/x11-apps>, which is still available
in current Debian and no doubt its myriad of derivatives as well.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:48:54 +0200, Axel Reichert wrote:

which mention a whole bunch of (unknown to me) editor beasts, XEDIT,
KEDIT, The Hessling Editor, ...

Not sure if that “XEDIT” is the same as the xedit in this package <https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/x11-apps>

No. But Debian has The Hessling Editor,

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/editors/the

if you want to play around. It boasts various regex flavours, see

https://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/doc/commset/SETREGEXP.html

Best regards

Axel

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On 02.06.2024 06:48, Axel Reichert wrote:

While browsing, I also found

https://softpanorama.org/Articles/orthodox_editors.shtml

which mention a whole bunch of (unknown to me) editor beasts, XEDIT,
KEDIT, The Hessling Editor, ...

(It should be noted that we shouldn't confuse these with some Unix
editors carrying the same name; XEDIT is not the same as the xedit
we find on Linux, and KEDIT is not the KDE editor, just to be sure.)

From a quick read, they seem to have mostly died/may be still live in
very small niches occupied by former IBM and OS/2 people. Comments on
these "Eastern Orthodox Editors"?

I have only faint memories on XEDIT that I used during the 1980's
on a VM/CMS system. The only thing I remember is that it had a very
convenient interface (for that time). At these days I preferred it
to Vi (that I used on VM/UTS), because of Vi's steep learning curve
(and me having been a Vi novice).

Janis

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:20:56 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

(... KEDIT is not the KDE editor, just to be sure.)

There is no KDE editor called “KEDIT”, that I can see. The editor/IDE of choice for KDE is called “Kate”.

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