It was not posted with the intention to recommend specific editors. That ship sailed long ago, as everyone knows. Was just posted to see if any interesting discussions arose, particularly about retro editors.

For example, I briefly (pun not intended) used the Brief editor, some years ago, and also by chance, was introduced to one of the guys who worked on it, Miles Norman, IIRC, at a dev meeting in Boston. Brief had an interesting feature: if you held down a particular key for longer, it would repeat faster. And if even longer, then even faster. This was very useful for moving around rapidly in large files. Also, I heard it was written in pure assembly.

Those are the kind of anecdotes I was hoping might arise from this post.

>but looks very 1990s.

That can be a plus point for some people :)

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