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CUA Family editors adhere to the CUA (Common User Access) standards, which were developed by IBM in the mid 80's. We can thank them for things like F3 to exit, F2 to save, etc.

There's more available at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

CUA Family Editors:

About CUA:

Cream - Vim editor repackaged to use CUA look and feel
E2 - Second major version of IBM's PC-DOS E editor
E3 IBM - IBM's E3 text editor included with PC-DOS
IbmProfessionalEdit (or PE) was a popular MSDOS text editor.
ISPF is popular on MVS/TSO mainframes.
PE2 - IBM Personal Editor II (PC-DOS 2.x & up)
PyPE - Python-centric text editor that uses does code folding
TDE - Thomson-Davis Editor (public domain, DOS, Windows, Linux)
SetEdit - Borland-style text editor
THE - The Hessling Editor - open source multi-platform XEDIT clone

Tilde - Open source comfortable Linux editor for those used to GUI editors

VisualSlickEdit is a popular multiplatform text editor.
WindowsNotepad is available on all MsWindows? machines.
X2 - a multiplatform text editor much like SlickEdit and the IbmEditorFamily.
XEDIT is popular on VM/CMS and VM/ESA mainframes.
Zeus is a programmer's editor/IDE for the Windows platform.