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Revision 26 not available (showing current revision instead)Text editors developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bell Labs Editor Family:
The BellLabsFamily of editors are focused on the use of RegularExpressions and command-line entry.
Into this family, I would place the whole ViFamily (though not developed by BellLabs, they have a common heritage) as well as the following:
- The qed line editor which is an ancestor of ed
- The unix ed line editor
- Edit?, a simplified ed workalike, written for and documented in Software Tools and Software Tools in Pascal by Kerninghan and Plaugher
- The unix ex line editor mode common to the ViFamily editors
- The sed stream editor (a non-interactive scripting tool)
- help - Combination editor/shell/user interface for Bell Labs Plan 9 OS 1st Edition
- jim - The precursor to the Sam editor, written by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 OS
- MiniTrue (MTR) - Fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer
- Msub - Script driven text manipulation tool
- The Sam windowed editor for Plan9OperatingSystem?, the successor to Unix
- The ACME editor, which is the successor to Sam
- Acme-SAC - Open source, standalone editor/shell/user interface based on ACME
- The Wily editor (is a Unix clone of ACME )
- A is a stand alone implementation of ACME written in the Go language
I believe there was an editor called Jim which preceeded Sam. Any ideas out there?
- See Rob Pike's comments in the Slashdot article excerpted in the wiki entry on Sam. --DMcCunney
- And see the page on jim, quoting comments from a paper by Rob Pike on the history of Sam -- DMcCunney 04/25/09
Should Vis be mentioned? If we are adding 3rd party ACME implementations, we aren't really taking a purist approach.