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Tag: text-editors

Emacs and the Extensible Editor as a Programmable Environment

Emacs turned text editing into a programmable environment by putting commands, key bindings, modes and user extensions behind an interpreter that could be changed while the editor was running.

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vi and Vim: Modal Editing as a Durable Developer Interface

vi turned editing into a modal command grammar built from operators and motions; Vim preserved that interface while extending it into a portable and programmable development environment.

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