Red (text editor)

{{Short description|OpenVMS text editing software}}

Red, usually in all caps as RED, is a screen editor for the VAX/VMS operating system using VT100 terminals. It was designed to be efficient in an interactive environment. RED's syntax is similar to TECO's. It supports cut/paste and user-written macros.{{cite web

|url = http://mvb.saic.com/freeware/vax80b/aaareadme.doc

|title = Contents of the Fall 1980 symposium tape for the VAX SIG

|date = Fall 1980

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014430/http://mvb.saic.com/freeware/vax80b/aaareadme.doc

|archivedate = 2007-09-27

}}{{cite web

|url = http://vmsone.com/~decuslib/vaxsig/vax000-83a/aaareadme.82a

|title = Contents of the Spring 1982 symposium tape for the VAX SIG

|date = Spring 1982

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060525102016/http://vmsone.com/~decuslib/vaxsig/vax000-83a/aaareadme.82a

|archivedate = 2006-05-25

}}

RED is written in the STOIC programming language.