#ident  "@(#)README for Txedit; John S. Urban, 19900501"

On CDC NOS machines there was a line editor called xedit. It was
written in COMPASS (CDC machine mode).  The source was given out and
modified by Gary Hill to have several handy extensions. This was called
"Turtle xedit". As users were moved from NOS to Unix platforms the main
thing they complained about was the time needed to learn a new editor.
So Bob Winters wrote a C version of "Turtle xedit". As users learned vi
and emacs and other GUI-based tools became available and new hires came
who had never know this editor the need for it diminished. But unlike
"stream" editors like Unix has, this one edits in specific columns
which is still useful for editing column-formatted input decks for many
FORTRAN programs.

Plus there is some interesting code to keep around.