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Text editors developed at AT&T Bell LaboratoriesBell Labs Editor Family:* About Bell Labs: The BellLabsFamily of editors are focused on the use of RegularExpressions and command-line entry. Into this family, I would place the whole ViFamily (though not developed by BellLabs, they have a common heritage) as well as the following: * The qed line editor which is an ancestor of ed * The unix ed line editor * Edit?, a simplified ed workalike, written for and documented in Software Tools and Software Tools in Pascal by Kerninghan and Plaugher * The unix ex line editor mode common to the ViFamily editors * The sed stream editor (a non-interactive scripting tool) * help - Combination editor/shell/user interface for Bell Labs Plan 9 OS 1st Edition * jim - The precursor to the Sam editor, written by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 OS * MiniTrue (MTR) - Fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer * Msub - Script driven text manipulation tool * The Sam windowed editor for Plan9OperatingSystem?, the successor to Unix * The ACME editor, which is the successor to Sam * Acme-SAC - Open source, standalone editor/shell/user interface based on ACME * The Wily editor (is a Unix clone of ACME ) * A is a stand alone imp[lementation os ACME written in the Go language I believe there was an editor called Jim which preceeded Sam. Any ideas out there? : See Rob Pike's comments in the Slashdot article excerpted in the wiki entry on Sam. --DMcCunney : And see the page on jim, quoting comments from a paper by Rob Pike on the history of Sam -- DMcCunney 04/25/09 |
The BellLabsFamily of editors are focused on the use of RegularExpressions and command-line entry.
Into this family, I would place the whole ViFamily (though not developed by BellLabs, they have a common heritage) as well as the following:
I believe there was an editor called Jim which preceeded Sam. Any ideas out there?