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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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