se (screen-editor) is also known as the ''Georgia Tech Screen Editor''.
According to the
README
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file in its sources, Se started out as the version of 'ed' that came with the book 'Software Tools', by Kernighan and Plauger, which was written in Ratfor.
Several people, including
Dan Forsyth and
Arnold Robbins
Arnold may refer to:
People
* Arnold (given name), a masculine given name
* Arnold (surname), a German and English surname
Places Australia
* Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria
Canada
* Arnold, Nova Scotia
...
worked on the program, making improvements before and after converting it to
C in early 1985. The program was first posted to the comp.sources.unix
newsgroup
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in December 1986. The final version noted in the external links dates from 1987.
There was also a different (and earlier) se screen-based editor for Unix, which was based on
ed.
References
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External links
se 2.10 and 2.20 source and screenshotport of se to Xenixse Homepage
Free text editors
Public-domain software with source code
Free software programmed in C