Web site: www.decuslib.com/decus/vax85c/saostoic/red/ (not active)
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: VAX/OpenVMS
License: unknown
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia: Red (text editor)
First release: 1980 (?)
RED – a screen editor for use with VT100’s. Considerable effort has been made to have RED operate efficiently in a heavy interactive environment. It’s syntax is similar to TECO’s.
People familiar with the Data General editors SPEED and NSPEED will feel at home with this editor. Current users of RED will find many new features, including CUT-PASTE and user-written macros. It expects to support other terminals and make more efficiency improvements within the next half-year. RED is written in STOIC.
STOIC is a variant of FORTH. Significant differences from FORTH are integration of VMS IO and System Services rather than using the FORTH disk structure, compilation of machine code (both inline and subroutine calls) as opposed to threaded code for higher efficiency. Double-precision floating point operations and a floating-point stack have been added with this release.
