Vedit (Visual Editor) was created by Ted Green in 1979.

It was commercially published by CompuView in 1980 for CP/M operating system running on 8080 / Z80 based computers.

[3] During the following years, versions were developed for OS/2, Xenix, SCO Unix and QNX.

CompuView was shut down in 1989, but a new company, Greenview Data, continued the development of Vedit starting from 1990.

It uses 64-bit addresses and data handling to support files larger than 2GB, but does not require a 64-bit processor or 64-bit OS.

In February 2008, Greenview Data announced that the old CP/M and CP/M-86 versions of Vedit can be freely shared.