This has been successfully compiled as recently as 2018 on FreeBSD. There are 32 bit issues and of course it doesn't handle UTF-8 - but if anyone wants to see what it's like, the (somewhat fixed, from 2006, based on a file obtained from Bornat) sources and a few notes are at: http://shell.pubnix.net/~raphael/ded/ |
ded "display editor"
Author: Richard Bornat, Harold Thimbleby History: http://www.storykettle.com/sternhall/sternhall06.html http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/~csharold/cv/files/ded.pdf Family: UnixEditorFamily Availability: unknown Platform: PDP-11, others
Ded was an easy-to-use modeless display editor with a simple and consistent set of features.
Development was started in the 70s at QMC as a successor to em and it spread to several sites in the UK. It seems to have fallen out of use by the end of the 80s.
(Thank you, 248.86-182-91.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be, for adding this! --DMcCunney 06/24/16)
This has been successfully compiled as recently as 2018 on FreeBSD. There are 32 bit issues and of course it doesn't handle UTF-8 - but if anyone wants to see what it's like, the (somewhat fixed, from 2006, based on a file obtained from Bornat) sources and a few notes are at: http://shell.pubnix.net/~raphael/ded/