E (1970s text editor)

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

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

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]