Oh man I forgot about JED! It was my first editor. At the time Emacs was often too slow on my computer (circa 1995 maybe even as early as 93). That editor was

Oh man I forgot about JED! It was my first editor. At the time Emacs was often too slow on my computer (circa 1995 maybe even as early as 93). That editor was awesome and it had a cool library I think called Slang which had its own sort of ncurses implementation and scripting language (probably wrong on the details). The author also implemented an awesome news reader back you know when people used news readers.