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A '''screen editor''' (sometimes called a 'video editor', but not to be confused with modern [[application]]s used for editing videos) is a [[text editor]] which used a [[video terminal]] for an early form of [[WYSIWYG]] [[user interface]], one in which the [[user]] saw the current contents of the [[file]] they were editing on the screen, which changed as each [[character]] was typed on the [[keyboard]].

Although they were computationally more expensive (since the editor [[process]] generally had to be woken up as each character was typed), they were so superior in ease of use, to existing editors (all designed for [[printing terminal]]s), that they spread rapidly.

Among the first screen editors (perhaps the first?) were the [[Emacs editors]], but others (such as the [[vi editor]]) soon followed.

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-A '''screen editor''' (sometimes called a 'video editor', but that term should not to be confused with modern [[application]]s used for editing videos) is a [[text editor]] which used a [[video terminal]] for an early form of [[WYSIWYG]] [[user interface]], one in which the [[user]] saw the current contents of the [[file]] they were editing on the screen, which changed as each [[character]] was typed on the [[keyboard]].
+A '''screen editor''' (sometimes called a '''video editor''', but that term should not to be confused with modern [[application]]s used for editing videos) is a [[text editor]] which used a [[video terminal]] for an early form of [[WYSIWYG]] [[user interface]], one in which the [[user]] saw the current contents of the [[file]] they were editing on the screen, which changed as each [[character]] was typed on the [[keyboard]].
-Although they were computationally more expensive (since the editor [[process]] generally had to be woken up as each character was typed), they were so superior in ease of use, to existing editors (all designed for [[printing terminal]]s), that they spread rapidly.
+Although they were computationally more expensive (since the editor [[process]] generally had to be woken up as each character was typed), they were so superior to existing editors (all designed for [[printing terminal]]s), in ease of use, that they spread rapidly.
-Among the first screen editors (perhaps the first?) were the [[Emacs editors]], but others (such as the [[vi editor]]) soon followed.
+Among the earliest screen editors (perhaps the first?) were the [[Emacs editors]], but others (such as the [[vi editor]]) soon followed.
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−	A '''screen editor''' (sometimes called a 'video editor', but not to be confused with modern [[application]]s used for editing videos) is a [[text editor]] which used a [[video terminal]] for an early form of [[WYSIWYG]] [[user interface]], one in which the [[user]] saw the current contents of the [[file]] they were editing on the screen, which changed as each [[character]] was typed on the [[keyboard]].

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