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Does anybody remember ElectricPencil

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From: J.C. Webber III
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 21:35
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dave@opus.csd.uwm.edu (Dave Rasmussen) writes:
| From article <1992Jul8.013214.3910@news.eng.convex.com>, by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>:
| > My first screen editor was wordstar.  Then ten years ago I moved to a
| > PDP-11 and vi, and it was like a breath a fresh air, a turbo mode for
| > editing.
| My first editor was RSTS/E EDITOR.BAC. Yes, I am proud to say that I
| am an accomplished Basic Plus programmer. :-)

My first editor was ElectricPencil on a CPM/8080 in an S100 bus system I 
built myself!  It was a pre-Wordstar type editor.  It used 
the control diamond (^E,^F,^X,^A) to move the cursor around the
screen.  I don't remember any other commands, it's been a LONG
time (mid 70's).

Anybody else remember that editor?

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