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"!Zap" is not a terminal editor at all, it's a GUI text editor for RISC OS.

• Animats 5y ago
  Troff is not a terminal editor, either. It's a document markup language, like Tex. It belongs to the family Runoff->nroff->troff->ditroff, and lives on as the horror in which UNIX manual pages are written.
  • greenyoda 5y ago
    I still remember using troff to create typeset output on a C/A/T phototypesetter hooked up to a PDP/11 running Version 7 Unix in the early 1980s. This article has a description of how that phototypesetter worked: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20131211/index.html https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20131211/index.html
  • baruchel 5y ago
    Still using Troff as my everyday text formatting software. Heirloom Troff works with UTF8 encoding, OTF fonts, Knuth's breaking line algorithm, etc. It does what I want without deciding by itself, has much better support for microtypography then LaTeX, etc.
• danellis 5y ago
  That said, it's surprising to see Zap on a list without StrongEd.
• celeritascelery 5y ago
  Same with Xi, it is a GUI editor.
  • mbStavola 5y ago
    There are various Xi frontend implementations[1], some of which are entirely terminal based like xi-term[2]. Xi _itself_ does not implement any UI, but there is an example implementation in Xi-Mac[3]. [1]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor#frontends https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor#frontends [2]: https://github.com/xi-frontend/xi-term https://github.com/xi-frontend/xi-term [3]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-mac https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-mac