The Hessling Editor (THE) is a powerful text editor modeled on the VM/CMS text editor XEDIT with the best features of Mansfield Software's Kedit. THE uses Regina Rexx as its macro language. It uses a command line, key bindings and a prefix area to operate. Two version of THE are created: - command line version of the program using ncurses - X11 graphical version of the program using the PDCursesMod