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EMACS 19.28 (26-DEC-1996)

Text Editor - Author: Free Software Fundation, VMS port by Richard Levitte
Licence: GNU General Public Licence
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2 - Alpha : DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Emacs supports classical text terminals (VTxxx) as well as X Window. The archive contains the source distribution.

Emacs 19.28 from CNAM
Screenshot

NEDIT 5.0 (31-JAN-1999)

Motif Text Editor - Author: Mark Edel edel@fnal.gov
Licence: free usage and distribution - See Copyright notice in README. file
VAX: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2

NEdit is a standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) style text editor for programs and plain-text files. Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors should find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. NEdit provides all of the standard menu, dialog, editing, and mouse support, as well as all of the standard shortcuts to which the users of modern GUI based environments are accustomed. For users of older style Unix editors, welcome to the world of mouse-based editing!

Nedit 5.0 sources from CNAM
Nedit 5.0 Screenshot
Nedit 5.0 binaries from CNAM

NEDIT 4.02 (9-JAN-1999)

Motif Text Editor - Author: Mark Edel edel@fnal.gov
Licence: free usage and distribution - See Copyright notice in online Help
VAX: DEC C 4.0, VMS 6.1 - Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Windows and Motif. It is widely considered to be among the best GUI based editors available for Unix systems.

Nedit 4.02 from CNAM
Nedit 4.02 Screenshot

NEDIT 3.0 (23-SEP-1994)

Motof Text Editor - Author: Mark Edel edel@fnal.gov

Licence: free usage and distribution - See Copyright notice in online Hel
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.5-2

NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Windows and Motif. Source only distribution.

Nedit 3.0 from CNAM

VIM 5.5 (6-NOV-1999)

VI iMproved Editor - Author: Bram Moolenaar Bram@vim.org
Licence: Free usage and distribution, charityware (see [.DOC]UGANDA.TXT)
VAX: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2, Alpha: DEC C 5.2, VMS 6.2

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available under X Window.

Vim 5.5 sources from CNAM
Vim official site
Vim on VMS site
Vim 5.5 binaries from CNAM

XTERM VMS 1.22 (16-FEB-2001)

X Window Terminal - Author: Many DEC & MIT people
VMS port by David Mathog mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Licence: Free usage and distribution - See Copyright notice in source files.
Alpha: DEC C 6.2, VMS 7.2-1, DEW/Motif 1.2-5

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

The distribution includes a binary for OpenVMS 7.2-1 with DW 1.2-5.

Xterm 1.22 from David's site
Xterm 1.22 from DECWarch
Xterm 1.22 from CNAM

XTERM 2.1

X Window Terminal - Author: Many DEC & MIT people
Licence: Free usage and distribution - See Copyright notice in source files.
VAX: VAX C 3.2, VMS 5.2-2, Alpha: DEC C 5.0, VMS 6.1

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

Xterm 2.1 from CNAM
Xterm 2.1 Screenshot

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   Last Update: May 12 2002
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