E (1970s text editor)

E is a text editor originally developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s for the WAITS operating system.[1]

This article is about the 1970s text editor. For the PC DOS text editor with the same name, see E (PC DOS).

E was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Richard Stallman visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976 and was quite impressed by this technology. Carl Mikkelsen had previously implemented a similar hack to the TECO text editor, adding a combined display+editing mode called "Control-R".[2]

References
  1. "Essential E" (PDF).
  2. Williams, Sam (2002). Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. p. 82. ISBN 0-596-00287-4. During a visit to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976, Stallman encountered an edit program named E. [...] He found a TECO feature called Control-R, written by Carl Mikkelson and named after the two-key combination that triggered it.


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