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The Hessling Editor

Name	THE
Version	4.0 (Dec 2022)
Vendor
Author	Mark Hessling
Licence	GPL v2
WWW	http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net

The Hessling Editor (THE) is a multi-platform VIO character-mode editor that closely mimics the mainframe VM/CMS XEDIT tool, with a few extra features taken from KEDIT. It uses REXX as its macro language.

Version

2.0 (1995-01-27)
3.0 (2001-07-08)
3.1 (2002-11-02)
3.2 (2006-12-19)
4.0 (2022-12-29)

Prerequisites

THE should work out of the box and can utilise any version of REXX as the scripting engine, if you want to compile it yourself however you will need nCurses or a version of any other reasonably modern curses library.

Links

THE homepage
Franz-Josef Wirtz: Supporting stuff for The Hessling Editor
Mark Hessling: THE - The Hessling Editor - Proceeding of The REXX Symposium for Developer and Users May 18-20, 1993, pp 93

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-The Hessling Editor is a multi-platform VIO character-mode editor that closely mimics the mainframe VM/CMS [[XEDIT]] tool, with a few extra features taken from [[KEDIT]]. It uses [[REXX]] as its macro language and is more frequently known by its initials, or '''THE''' than by its full name.
+|Picture=The.png
+|Name=THE
+|Version=4.0 (Dec 2022)
+|Author=[[Mark Hessling]]
+|Licence=[[GPL v2]]
+|WWW=http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net
+}}
+'''The Hessling Editor''' ('''THE''') is a multi-platform VIO character-mode editor that closely mimics the mainframe VM/CMS [[XEDIT]] tool, with a few extra features taken from [[KEDIT]]. It uses [[REXX]] as its macro language.
 ==Version==
-* Current version for all platforms is: 3.3 Release Candidate.
+* 2.0 (1995-01-27)
+* 3.0 (2001-07-08)
-====Prerequisites====
+* 3.1 (2002-11-02)
+* 3.2 (2006-12-19)
+* 4.0 (2022-12-29)
+;Prerequisites
 THE should work out of the box and can utilise any version of REXX as the scripting engine, if you want to compile it yourself however you will need [[nCurses]] or a version of any other reasonably modern curses library.
-==Language Support==
+==Links==
-* English - Built in.
-==Links & publications==
 * [http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net THE homepage]
-* [http://www.gut-wirtz.de/THE/index.html Franz-Josef Wirtz's THE REXX macro reprisotory]
+* Franz-Josef Wirtz: [http://www.gut-wirtz.de/THE/index.html Supporting stuff for The Hessling Editor]
-====Publications====
+* Mark Hessling: ''THE - The Hessling Editor'' - [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/reports01/slac-r-422.pdf Proceeding of The REXX Symposium for Developer and Users May 18-20, 1993], pp 93
-* [[Mark Hessling]]: ''THE - The Hessling Editor'' -  Published as part of [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/reports01/slac-r-422.pdf Proceeding of The REXX Symposium for Developer and Users May 18-20, 1993], page 93 (page 99 in the PDF version).
-==Licence==
-* Open source software released under the [[GPL v2]]
-==Author==
-* [[Mark Hessling]]
-[[Category:Tools]][[Category:DOS Tools]][[Category:MS Windows Tools]][[Category:Generic Unix Tools]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:REXX]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Text editors]]
+[[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Text editors]]
-[[Category:DOS text editors]]
-[[Category:Win32 text editors]]