What is the oldest application you use?

Posted by xtabber
Nov 10, 2017 at 01:25 PM

I’ve been using the Kedit text editor from Mansfield Software Group on a daily basis since 1985. Kedit is based on the IBM mainframe Xedit and is line-oriented (most text editors are buffer-oriented) which gives it database-like selective editing capabilities that other text editors simply can’t match.

As an aside, while I prefer more standard editors like EditPad Pro or Word for general writing purposes, John McPhee has used Kedit exclusively to write all of his books for nearly 30 years, as he discusses at length in “Draft No. 4,” which many in this forum would probably find worthwhile reading.

I’ve also used Quicken and TurboTax regularly since the early 1990’s, and Beyond Compare on a daily basis since 1998.