[TUHS] screen editors

[Thomas Paulsen]

>I don't recall the exact details, but there was once an editor called "em"
>(Editor for Mortals).  I remember thinking: what sort of an idiot would
>call it that, with the "e" and "r" keys adjacent to each
>other?  I wonder  how many files were lost that way...
you can download, build and use em making immediately clear that em was much easier 
to use than ed. Nevertheless em was only (another) step in between ed and vi.

http://pgas.freeshell.org/C/em/
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Em_Editor/
http://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/emsource/