[beezle]

A lot of the "elite" compsci students at my college in the early-ish 80s were still using TECO on our DECSYSTEM 2060 but some of the cool-kids were trying that new Emacs thing ;)

Me, being just a lowly compsci minor, prefered the full screen editor called FOXE. Was very simply to use and did the job fine for writing/editing programs of the length typical of homework assignments. Don't recall all the particulars to comment on search, replace, etc.

Unfortunately, there is like zero internet info on it beyond: "Little (if any) information is available for this visual editor available for TOPS-20 in the early 1980's. It was similar in appearance to the then new EMACS but had a far simpler command structure."