Software:E (1970s text editor)

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E is a text editor originally developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s for the WAITS operating system.[1]

E was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Richard Stallman visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976 and was quite impressed by this technology. Carl Mikkelsen had previously implemented a similar hack to the TECO text editor, adding a combined display+editing mode called "Control-R".[2]

References

  1. "Essential E". http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/80/796/CS-TR-80-796.pdf. 
  2. Williams, Sam (2002). Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. p. 82. ISBN 0-596-00287-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=ou2fOwhqAD8C&pg=PA82. "During a visit to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976, Stallman encountered an edit program named E. [...] He found a TECO feature called Control-R, written by Carl Mikkelson and named after the two-key combination that triggered it." 

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