History
XEDIT was written by IBM employee Xavier de Lamberterie and was first released in 1980. Its predecessor was EDIT SP (SP is an acronym for System Product used by IBM). Other key influences were EDIT, the older editor for CMS, and EDGAR, an IBM Program Product editor for CMS. XEDIT supported many of the EDGAR commands, SOS (Screen Output Simulation) being a major one. XEDIT also supported EXEC2, the predecessor of REXX.
XEDIT is one of the text editors subject to holy wars; see also Emacs and vi.
As of 2011 Mansfield Software Group announced that the support for KEDITW 1.6.1 will end in 2012. This last 32bit version works also in the 64bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista, but does not directly support Unicode.
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