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NE is a text editor that was originally designed to run on a wide
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variety of machines, from large servers to personal workstations.
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In the past it ran on a number of operating systems; however, the
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current version supports only Unix-like systems.
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The main use of NE is expected to be as an interactive screen
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editor. However, it can also function as a line-by-line editor,
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and it is programmable, so it can be run non-interactively as a
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text manipulation tool.
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NE is a re-implementation of a previous editor that was called E,
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which in turn evolved from one called Zed and a number of predecessors
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that ran on IBM mainframes. The lineage can be traced back to some
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very early Cambridge text editors of the 1960s.
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