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• 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....
• Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
• Emacs, n: A slow-moving parody of a text editor.
• 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....
• User: I'm having problems with my text editor.
  Help desk: Which editor are you using? User: I don't know, but it's version VI....
• 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....
• 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....
• THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR THE LUNATIC COMPUTER USER... "StuffED" Text Editor - special feature
  - Language bias module: Won't edit COBOL source-code - AutoCorrupt (tm) - Count bugs in editor - Multi-user/one file "Edit Wars" -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA....
• flat-ASCII adj. [common] Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that i
  has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or output device, and no meta-characters)....