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commit 9b027d3f4c7e1313bfec198b55ad4ff95ccc87b2
parent 64dc1c0180198ca564c73adf76cd8f1ec4c6641b
Author: Chris Bracken <chris@bracken.jp>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:19:14 -0700

Add history of text editors

Adds a copy of a Usenet post by Eric Fischer mapping out an ASCII-art
geneaology of text editors.

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diff --git a/editor_history.txt b/editor_history.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +From: Eric Fischer <enf@pobox.com> +Newsgroups: alt.os.multics,alt.folklore.computers +Message-ID: <8utbrm$apg$1@bob.news.rcn.net> +Subject: Re: emacs and other editors +Date: 15 Nov 2000 06:52:38 GMT + +Joachim Pense <joachim_pense@hotmail.com> wrote: + +> And, finally, what is the historical relation of qed(x)/ted to the Unix zoo +> of editors (ed/ex/vi/sed...)? + +What appears below looks dangerously Mentifex-like, but I assure you +it is actually supposed to represent a vi-centric family tree of editors. +Links that I can't prove but want to believe are shown as question marks. + +There are undoubtedly errors and omissions, so if anyone can correct any +of these I would appreciate it. + +eric + + Colossal Typewriter + by John McCarthy and Roland + Silver for the PDP-1 | Photon typesetter + ? | editors by Michael + ? \ Barnett & Kalon + Expensive Typewriter CREATE/EDIT \ Kelley for TECO + for PDP-1 by Steve Piner for CTSS \ IBM 704 for PDP-1 + / | / | \ \__ \ by Dan Murphy + / | / | \ \ \ | + * Expensive Typewriter editors EDITS | MEMO/MODIFY | | VEDIT | + for PDP-1, improved for by Arthur | by Leslie | | by Victor | + by Peter Deutsch PDP-4, Samuel | Lowry / | Yngve | + | PDP-5/8 for CTSS \ for CTSS / _/ for PDP-6 + | ? \_ \ | / _/ CTSS TECO by + QED ? \_ \ | / / / Greenblatt, + for Berkeley SDS-940 ? \ \ | | | / Holloway, + by Deutsch and LINED TYPSET for CTSS and Nelson + Butler Lampson for PDP-6 by Jerry Saltzer ? | | + / \ | | | ? | | + / \ | PDP-7/9 editor | ? DEC | + QED, * QED | | ? TECO | + as published for CTSS | ????????????????|??? | + in CACM by Ken Thompson | ?? | ITS + | | | ? ED (and EDL, EDA, EDB) TECO + | | STOPGAP for CTSS / | + | QED for PDP-10 | / / + | for Multics by Bill Weiher | / | + | by Ken Thompson | edit | | + | / \ SOS for Multics | | + | / \ for PDP-10 by Charles Garman | | + | qedx QED by Steve | ___/ | + | for Multics for GCOS Savitzky | / EMACS + | by Dennis Ritchie ? edm / in TECO + | | ? for Multics / by RMS et al. + QUIDS | ? / / | | +by George Coulouris * ed ? _____/ / | | + et al. for PDP-7 Unix ? / / | | + | by Ken Thompson ? | / | | + | | ? ZED/DOC / Multics | + | | ? by Vaughan / EMACS | + | ed ? Pratt / by Bernard | + | for Unix ? in TECO / Greenberg | + | (various versions) ? | / | / + | | ? | / \ / + | | ? | / GNU Emacs + \ ed ? / / + \ for Unix v6 ? / / + \ / | \ ? / / + \ / other eds | ? / / + em (UCLA?) | ? / / +Unix ed with additions | | ? | / + from George Coulouris \ | ? | / + | | \__ | | ? | / + | | \__ | | ? | / +other | ex (v1) | / + em | Unix ed with additions / / +variants | by Bill Joy and Charles / / + DED Haley / / + by Richard Bornat, | / / + Harold Thimbleby ex (v2) / / + Unix ed with additions + by Bill Joy + | + ex/vi (v3) + extended by Mark Horton + +