Author: Fred Wright, Brian Harvey, Arthur Samuel, Martin Frost Manual: https://www.saildart.org/E.ALS%5BUP,DOC%5D Manual: http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/80/796/CS-TR-80-796.pdf Family: DecFamily Platform: SAIL (PDP-10)
E is a fast display-oriented text editor for disk files. By using random access to individual pages, E can move around quickly within a file without having to be continually recopying the file; and only those pages whose texts are changed are ever written out to the disk. E keeps one or more contiguous pages in core and, on display terminals, shows to the user a portion of this text as if through a window, thus showing lines of text in context rather than isolated.