PC and Unix Adaptations
When PCs and Unix computers began to supplant IBM 3270 terminals, some users wanted text editors that resembled the XEDIT they were accustomed to. To fill this need, several developers provided similar programs:
- KEDIT by Mansfield Software Group, Inc., was the first XEDIT clone. Although originally released in 1983, the first major release was version 3.53 for DOS, released in 1985. The last version for DOS and OS/2 was KEDIT 5.0p4. KeditW (for Windows) is at version 1.6 dated December 2007 (the latest previous release being 1.5 service level 3 dated January 1998). Kedit supports a built-in REXX-subset called KEXX. Mansfield Software created the first non-IBM implementation of REXX (Personal REXX) in 1985.
- SEDIT (first released in 1989) is another implementation on both Windows and Unix, which supports a variant of REXX language called S/REXX (announced in 1994).
- The Hessling Editor THE, written with compatibility for both KEDIT and XEDIT in mind, uses Regina, an open source version of REXX. It was begun in 1990, first released in August 1992. THE can also be built with any of several implementations of REXX, including uni-REXX.
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