Re: Good native Linux text editors ???

Aren't there editors that run on Linux that do not run on every
possible version of Unix?

Linux is an operating system kernel. Being a kernel, it cannot possibly
have such a thing as 'a native text editor'.

Depends how you want to define native. Emacs is the grandfather of Linux
in that it was the first GNU program, the rest of the GNU tools came
after Emacs and without the GNU tools there would be no Linux. So from
that point of view Emacs and XEmacs (which is a derivative of GNU Emacs)
are THE native editors for Linux systems. GNU Emacs is not the first
Emacs, that was ITS Emacs which was written at MIT in the 70s and ran on
DEC System 10s. ITS EMACS was written in TECO which was a line editor
with macro capabilities. TECO ran on DEC PDP 11s and on the 10. In
between TECO and ITS EMACS was VT TECO which ran on VT100 CRT terminals.
Writing in TECO was very limiting, basically it was a sequence of control
characters so you couldn't easily read your own code let alone anyone
elses. In the late 70s/early 80s there were several Emacs written in
LISP, GNU Emacs which was written by Stallman and Gosling Emacs which was
written my James Gosling who later did JAVA. It is Stallmans Emacs that
survives today.
.

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