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== Graphical and text user interface == The following editors can either be used with a [[graphical user interface]] or a [[text user interface]]. <!--Listed editors should already have a Wikipedia-article based on independent sources or be part of a notable operating system with its own article.--> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Name ! Description ! License |- | [[Elvis (text editor)|Elvis]] | A vi/ex clone with additional commands and features. | {{open source|[[Artistic License|ClArtistic]]}} |- | [[Extensible Versatile Editor|Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE)]] | Default under [[OpenVMS]]. | {{dunno}} |- | [[Emacs|GNU Emacs]]<ref>Cameron, D., Rosenblatt, B., Raymond, E., & Raymond, E. S. (1996). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Glickstein, B. (1997). Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Halme, H., & Heinänen, J. (1988). GNU Emacs as a dynamically extensible programming environment. Software: Practice and Experience, 18(10), 999-1009.</ref><ref>Schoonover, M. A., & Schoonover, S. (1991). GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc.</ref><ref>Cameron, D., Elliott, J., Loy, M., Raymond, E. S., & Rosenblatt, B. (2005). Learning GNU Emacs. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref>/[[XEmacs]]<ref>Stallman, R., & Goyal, R. (1994). Getting Started With XEmacs. One of a complete set of manuals for XEmacs, all available at {{URL|http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index. html}}.</ref><ref>Ayers, L. (1997). A Comparison of Xemacs and GNU emacs. Linux Journal, 1997, 4.</ref> | Two long-existing forks of the popular [[Emacs]] programmer's editor. Emacs and [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] are the dominant text editors on [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]]s, and have inspired the [[editor war]]s. | {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]] / [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]}} |- | [[Language-Sensitive Editor|Language-Sensitive Editor (LSE)]] | Programmer's Editor for [[OpenVMS]] implemented using [[Text Processing Utility|TPU]]. | {{dunno}} |- | [[Textadept]] | A modular, cross-platform editor written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]], using [[Scintilla (software)|Scintilla]].<ref>{{Cite web| title = Textadept| access-date = 2014-08-14| url = http://foicica.com/textadept/}}</ref> | {{open source|[[MIT License|MIT]]}} |- | [[Vile (text editor)|vile (vi like Emacs)]] | A vi work-alike which retains the vi command-set while adding new features: multiple windows and buffers, infinite undo, colorization, scriptable expansion capabilities, etc. | {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]]}} |- | [[Vim (text editor)|vim]]<ref name="vi1">Robbins, A., Hannah, E., & Lamb, L. (2008). Learning the vi and Vim Editors. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref name="vi2">Robbins, A. (2011). Vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".</ref><ref>Schulz, K. (2007). Hacking Vim: a cookbook to get the most out of the latest Vim editor. Packt Publishing Ltd.</ref><ref name="vim">Neil, D. (2015). Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought. Pragmatic Bookshelf.</ref> | A clone based on the ideas of the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] editor and designed for use both from a [[command line interface]] and in a [[graphical user interface]]. | {{open source|Vim}} |}
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