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E Text Editor on GitHub

The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at http://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement. img http://img.skitch.com/20090403-hr3ngqymfe34s217b2dejd29e.png http://github.com/etexteditor/e It was open sourced as part…

Chris Wanstrath·@defunkt

April 3, 2009 | Updated January 4, 2019

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The highly Googleable E Text Editor is now open source and available on GitHub at http://github.com/etexteditor/e. Read the blog post announcement.

img http://img.skitch.com/20090403-hr3ngqymfe34s217b2dejd29e.png http://github.com/etexteditor/e

It was open sourced as part of their commitment to being an open company.

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