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Another question asked why there are so few non-vi modal editors. A few of the comments in that question mentioned other modal editors in passing, but I think that it would be useful to develop a more comprehensive list. Searching for this information on Google is difficult, as vim-related information tends to drown out everything else.

A few items to get things rolling:

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There have been many Non-vi modal editors over the years. Many of them tied to a single operating system.

WordStar, edlin, and ISPF come to mind. Also EDIT from the HDOS system. There are probably at least a dozen others named EDIT or it's variants.

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    ISPF is not modal! There is an input field for global commands, input fields by each line for line commands, and the WYSWYG update of the screen is mostly handled by the 3270 terminla rather than the editor. At no time do switch modes -- which is waht defines a modal editor. – James Anderson Jun 24 '11 at 06:18
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I've never tried it, but AFAIK Emacs has a plugin to emulate vi's modal editing.

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    You mean Viper (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/viper.html), the spiritual inverse of Vimacs (http://www.algorithm.com.au/code/vimacs/). Yes, some people are crazy enough to use both. :-) – ephemient Jan 28 '09 at 05:46
  • There's also [evil mode](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil). – Colin R Jan 30 '14 at 06:05
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Elvis is one of these editors. Also, nvi could count as one.

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