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XEDIT (and THE) aren't GUI editors - they run in a terminal. Some of the other programs stated to have a relationship versus XEDIT may be GUI-based, but there's (lacking an independent review which can be cited) no apparent reason for mentioning this. TEDickey (talk) 17:40, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noticing. I felt uncomfortable when I made the original edit. I wanted to mention this because the lede states that it adds the best features of Kedit, which is a GUI tool. I learned the hard way that this was incorrect.Wikfr (talk) 17:56, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Kedit sentence was cut/paste from the program's website (which is enough reason to reword - and look for third-party sources). At the least, a qualifier such as "According to its developers, THE incorporates some features found in another XEDIT clone, Kedit" (and cite-web the website at that point). If I were writing one of my webpages, I wouldn't quote anything except for material which I referred to in other places on the same page - hope that helps TEDickey (talk) 18:19, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've replaced the contested statement by the first 3rd party reference explaining the .tld syntax highlighting. Folks, if you like and use THE please find more verifiable and notable 3rd party references. I'm mostly a KEDIT and ooREXX user, and didn't even know that .tld exists, and is apparently not the same as .kld. –Be..anyone (talk) 01:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I suspect that whoever referred to "GUI editor" really meant "visual editor", which is the way that Xedit is described by IBM (as opposed to their earlier "line-mode" editor (edit) on their VM/CMS systems.[1]Zvmphile (talk) 07:24, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
