RED (Richard's Editor) is a derivative of ECCE? (qv) written by Richard Marshall.
Author: Richard Marshall Download: http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/apps/ecce/rmm/ (Source and manual) Family: LineEditorFamily EdinburghFamily Platform: DEC PDP series, others License: Commercial
It fills in some of the gaps in the commands offered by ECCE, making it more orthogonal and predictable; and it adds some facilities from other text editors such as counting registers (I think possibly derived from the Q-registers of Teco?). The editor was written in the Edinburgh language Imp77, somewhere around 1977 or 78.
Richard Marshall also wrote a screen editor called FLOSSIE which later became IE, a very popular editor in use at Edinburgh in the 80's.
RED also refers to the the lightweight, screen-oriented, plain-text file editor for CP/M by Edward K. Ream. RED was originally published in Dr. Dobbs Journal #81 & #82, JUL/AUG 1983. The original source code for this version of RED is part of the BDS-C v1.6, released into the public domain, September 20, 2002. https://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html
Author: Edward K. Ream Download: https://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html (Source and manual) Updated: https://github.com/mdlougheed/RED/blob/master/README.md Family: CP/M Editors Platform: CP/M primarily. Being written in C, can be readily ported.