Aihuxj.101
fa.editor-p
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxj!ihstr4
Wed Mar 17 15:31:51 1982
Whatever happened to....the Rand Editor E?
       I had the good fortune to use the Rand editor E (previously called
ned) at Purdue University before I came to Bell Labs.  Now I work at a 1200
Baud terminal (it was 300 until about a month ago!) and use VI only because
its user interface is slightly more logical than that of EMACS.  Why isn't
E more widely used?  The simple command structure, the ability to manipulate
areas as well as lines, the multiple windows and the absence of buffers (one
reason I don't use EMACS) makes E a very desirable editor.  I can't remember
seeing a paper mentioning E in any journal (maybe I missed it?) and I don't
know anyone at Bell that uses it.  Can anyone fill me in?  I know David Yost
and Judith Westbury are connected with E since their names appear on a document
from Rand.

                                       David Newkirk

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