Red is a text editor running under Unix and X Windows.
It was developed at the Basser Department of Computer
Science as part of the Blue Programming Environment.
The original version of Red runs in the integrated
programming environment for Blue, but a stand-alone
version of the editor has been produced. This stand-alone
version lacks all the features that are specificly tailored
for Blue, but rather acts as a normal general purpose text
editor.
It was designed to be both easy to use and flexible. The
Blue environment is aimed at beginners, so consequently
Red is designed with non-expert users in mind. The basic
editing functions are easy to understand and to use. Some
effort was made to combine this ease of use with some
flexibility and power so that users are not artificially
held on a non-expert level over a long period of time by
the editor. (Some programs that claim to be "idiot-proof"
tend to treat the users as idiots and take care that they
remain as such...) It is intended that a user with growing
expertise can use Red in a more powerful way, making Red a
good choice for expert users as well.