Family Classifications

Showing revision 46
Difference (from revision 46 to current revision) (author diff)

Changed: 19c19

* SymbianEditorsFamily? - Editors on devices running the Symbian Operating System

* SymbianEditorFamily - Editors on devices running the Symbian Operating System

Editor families can be classified by various criteria

8bitMicroFamily - Editors for early 8bit microcomputers like the Altair, Northstar, and Tandy lines
AmigaEditorFamily - Editors for the Commodore Amiga
AndroidEditorFamily - Text editors for the Google Android OS
Atari8bitFamily - Editors for 8 bit Atari systems.
AtariSTEditorFamily - Editors for the AtariST?.
CalculatorEditorFamily - Text editors on pocket calculators
CTSSEditorFamily - Editors for MIT CTSS.
DecFamily - Editors for Digital Equipment Corp. systems and emulators of them on PCs.
GameConsoleFamily - Editors for gaming consoles like the GP2X and Sony PSP
IbmEditorFamily - Editors for IBM mid-range and mainframe systems and emulators of them on PCs.
MacintoshEditorFamily - Editors for Apple Macintosh systems.
MainframeEditorFamily - Editors on mainframe computers
MiniComputerFamily - Editors for Mini-computers and emulators of them
PalmOSEditorsFamily - Editors on devices running the Palm Operating System
PocketPCFamily - Editors for handhelds running the WinCE/WindowsMobile? OS
SymbianEditorsFamily? - Editors on devices running the Symbian Operating System
WebHostedEditors run directly off a web page.

AndroidEditorFamily - Text editors for the Google Android OS
CPMEditorFamily - Editors for the Digital Research CP/M OS used on early 8bit microcomputers
iOSEditorFamily - Editors on Apple devices running iOS
LinuxEditorFamily - Editors running under the Linux Operating system
MacintoshEditorFamily - Editors running under the Mac OS X / macOS Operating system
MicrosoftWindowsEditors - These are CuaFamily editors but with added Windows specific functionality.
MsDosEditors proliferated in the 1990's. Many have their own Family trees.
OS/2EditorFamily - Editors running under IBM's OS/2 operating system
PalmOSEditorsFamily - Text editors on devices running the Palm Operating System
PocketPCFamily - Text editors for hanhelds running the WinCE/WindowsMobile? OS
RiscOSEditorFamily -Text editors that run under RiscOS
UnixEditorFamily - Text editors for flavors of the Unix OS.

AssemblerEditorFamily - Editors written in Assembly language
CCPPEditorFamily - Editors written in the C/C++ language (everything here that isn't in one of the other families below)
JavaBasedEditors - Editors written in the Java language
JavaScriptEditorFamily - Editors written in JavaScript
PerlEditorFamily - Editors written in Perl
PythonEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Python scripting language
RubyEditorFamily - Text editors written in the Ruby script language
TclTkEditorFamily - Text editors written in the TclTk script language
VBEditorFamily - Text editors written in MS Visual Basic

DataEditorFamily text editors are used to edit "flat-files" and other structured data files
HexEditorFamily editors are used primarily to edit files in Hexadecimal/binary/octal and other representations.
HTMLEditorFamily - Editors for writing HTML code
OutlinerFamily editors are used to edit trees and other forms of hierarchical data.
REXX-Friendly Editors - Text editors friendly to editing REXX, ooREXX code
RichTextEditorFamily - Text editors capable of editing Rich Text Format files
TeXEditorFamily - Editors for working with TeX/LaTeX
UnicodeEditorFamily - Text editors capable of working with Unicode
WordProcessorFamily - Editors with features for controlling the appearance of printed output
WritersIDEFamily - Text editors for prose with additional features for story development
XMLEditorFamily - Text editors for creating XML documents

Intel's AEDITFamily of text editors were originally used on 8086/8088 processors.
BellLabsFamily editors are centered around the use of RegularExpressions and may include both FullScreen and LineEditors?
BriefFamily editors were popular in the MSDOS days.
EarlyEditorFamily - Editors important in the development of computerized text editing
EclipseFamily - Products built on IBM's open source Java Eclipse IDE
EdinburghFamily text editors were written in Edinburgh, Scotland.
EmacsFamily editors derive their structure from the Emacs (both Gosling and GNU) editors.
GecFamily - Editors that ran on GEC Computers mini-computers
IntelFamily editors originated for programming on Intel processors (and overlap with a AEDITFamily)
MulticsEditorFamily - Editors running on the Multics OS, which influenced Unix
OberonEditorFamily text editors encourage textual re-use in the way they use the mouse.
RandEditorsFamily - Editors inspired by the Rand Corp. full screen editor
ViFamily editors all derive from BillJoy's original Vi text editor at Berkeley. They intersect with the BellLabsFamily
WordStarFamily of editors were derived from the MicroPro WordStar WordProcessor (as well as the WordMaster editor)
YaleZFamily - Text editors descended from Yale Z

CuaFamily editors use CUA (common user access) style of editing
DesktopPublisherFamily - Full fledged publishing programs that include an editor
DotNETEditorFamily - Editors based on the Microsoft .NET framework
EarlyEditorFamily editors were among the first text editors available for computers
FoldingEditors - Editors that implement TextFolding
IDEFamily - Editors that are components of Integrated Development Environments
LineEditorFamily - All of the line editors (i.e. not full screen or full window)
NotepadReplacement editors are replacements for the horribly incomplete MicrosoftNotepad.
OberonEditorFamily text editors encourage textual re-use in the way they use the mouse.
ScintillaEditorFamily are editors built on the Scintilla edit component
ScriptedEditorFamily - Editors extensible with a script language
SpecializedFamily - Text editors for a quite specific purpose or application
SynEditEditorFamily editors use the Delphi Syn edit control
TinyEditors are editors that are full featured but extremely small in size (disk and RAM).
WebHostedEditors run directly off a web page in a browser.