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Mark Stewart Brader at the University of Waterloo wrote a paper on [An Incremental Text Formatter] (PDF), discussing several other programs listed here
[George Coulouris] talked about em, his ancestor to VI
Eric Fischer posted this EditorFamilyTree to [alt.folklore.computers] in November 2000
The FAQTS Knowledge Base provided this timeline
Philip Hazel described his efforts creating E, NE-ICL, ZED-ICL and other software in a [technical autobiography]
Bernard Greenberg wrote about [Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation]
Bill Joy spoke about [the development of vi] in a Unix World interview in 1985
Mike Padlipsky wrote a proposal for an ARPANET editor called NETED as [RFC 569] in 1973
Dennis Ritchie's [Incomplete History of QED]
Richard M. Stallman's paper on [the development of the EMACS editor]
Wikipedia has a [text editor overview.]