The Gypsy document editor: celebrating 50 years

In 1975, five whole decades ago - before Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or even vi and emacs existed - a new document editor was born at Xerox PARC, and it was named Gypsy. It’s hard to properly introduce Gypsy because its ideas succeeded. Can you imagine an editor where you can’t type immediately into the document, or cut-copy-paste, or double-click to select a word? Borrowing the phrase from Scott…