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• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• Ed is the standard text editor.
• ed n. "ed is the standard text editor." Line taken from original the Unix manual page on ed
  an ancient line-oriented editor that is by now used only by a few Real Programmers, and even the original line is sometimes uttered near the beginning of an emacs vs....
• vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n. [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release.
  Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984....
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!
• SOS /S-O-S/ n.,obs. An infamously losing text editor.
  Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written....