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The first editor I used was a line editor on a Sperry Univac machine, connected via a teletype terminal. My first full screen editor was Edgar on IBM's VM/CMS. We later upgraded to [[XEDIT]], which was a great improvement. The first PC editor I used was the IBM Personal Editor [[PE(Personal)]]. Later, having really liked [[XEDIT]], I purchased [[KEDIT]] for the PC, which was a very good [[XEDIT]] clone for the PC's. Other editors I used were the WANG system editor, the [[see]] editor that came with Desmet C, and the TurboPascal editor. In 1984 I started developing [[QEDIT]] and founded [http://www.semware.com SemWare Corporation] in 1985. By then my keystroke habits were a cross between XEDIT/KEDIT and [[WordStar]] (although I'd never used WordStar, but I had become very familiar with the keystrokes because of the [[TurboPascal]] editor). QEdit was initially developed with Turbo Pascal v2, and the first version was distributed in late November 1985. In 1988 I said goodbye to Pascal and started converting QEdit to C. In 1990 SemWare started development on [[TheSemwareEditor]] (TSE) and we distributed the first version in 1991. I continue to work on TSE, and have a blast doing it! Along the way, I have become a collector of editors. Some of my favorites (besides TSE and the others mentioned) include [[Brief]], [[Conroy MicroEmacs]] and those based on Nigel Gilbert's e. And like many, I'm an admirer of [[EMACS]], [[VIM]] and [[elvis]]. Being somewhat of a minimalist in certain areas, I also have a great admiration for [[TinyEditors]]. One version of QEdit was only 29k, and the first usable version of TSE (this was the version used to develop the rest of TSE - it included virtual memory, macro language interpreter, multiple files, full block support, etc.) was only 30k. I'm greatly impressed by [[e-Mtv]], [[Freemacs]], [[Slim]], [[T]], [[Ted]], [[Terse]], and [[ue]].
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