Editing List of text editors (section)

== Historical ==

=== Visual and full-screen editors ===
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* [[Brief (text editor)|Brief]] – a programmer's editor for DOS and OS/2
* [[Edit application]] – a programmer's editor for Classic Mac OS
* [[MS-DOS Editor|EDIT]] – a menu-based editor introduced to supersede [[EDLIN]] in [[MS-DOS]] version 5.0 and up and available in most [[Microsoft Windows]] 
* [[EDT (Digital)|EDT]] – a character-based editor used on [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-11]]s and [[OpenVMS|VMS]]
* [[O26 (text editor)|O26]] – written for the operator console of the [[CDC 6000 series]] machines in the mid-1960s
* [[Red (text editor)|Red]] – a VMS editor, written in [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]] variant [[STOIC]]
* [[se (text editor)|se]] – an early screen-based editor for [[Unix]]
* [[DEC SED (text editor)|SED]] – cross-platform editor from the 1980s, ran on [[TOPS-10]], [[TOPS-20]] and VMS
* [[Source Program Maintenance Online II|SPMOL-II]] – editor used mostly for programming on [[IBM mainframe]]s with the [[IBM 3270]] terminal
* [[STET (text editor)|STET]] (the 'STructured Editing Tool') – may have been the first folding editor; its first version was written in 1977
* [[TeachText]]
* [[Text Editor and Corrector|TECO]] – a character-based editor, which included a programming language.
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=== Line editors ===
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* [[Colossal Typewriter]] – an early editor thought to be written for the [[PDP-1]]
* [[ed (text editor)|ed]]:
**[[Unix]]'s early line editor
**[[CP/M]]'s line editor
* [[Edlin|EDLIN]] – a line editor delivered with [[MS-DOS]]
* [[EDT (Univac)]] – a line editor for [[Unisys]] [[VS/9]] and [[Fujitsu]] [[BS2000]] systems
* [[ex (text editor)|ex]] – an EXtended version of Unix's [[ed (text editor)|ed]], later evolved into the visual editor [[Vi (text editor)|vi]]
* fred – sed-like line editor used on the [[CDC 7600]] at Los Alamos
* GEDIT (aka George 3 EDITor) – a TECO-like editor including a programming language for the [[GEC 4000 series]] computers. GEDIT was originally written by David Toll of [[Rutherford Appleton Laboratory]], and then adopted by [[GEC Computers]] for [[OS4000]].
* [[sed]] – a non-interactive programmable stream editor available in [[Unix]]
* [[Text Editor and Corrector|TECO]] – one of the most advanced character-based editors, which included a programming language
* TEDIT – [[GEC 4000 series]] editor based on the Cambridge Titan EDIT
* [[QED (text editor)|QED]]
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