ZED is easy to use for the beginner, but has powerful features to suit the experienced programmer.
Beginners can use the pop-down menus and context sensitive help.
It has full context-sensitive help, and a customisation program which enables you to set individual hotkey combinations to invoke every editor command. In ZED you can edit up to 5 files at once. There is also a facility to compare two edit buffers, invaluable for programmers controlling multiple versions of their programs. With a 100 level deleted text undo buffer, keystroke recording macros, text formatting commands and programming commands, ZED is ideal for the professional programmer. ZED is also available for a variety of Unix flavours, including SCO, IBM RS6000 and DG Avion.