Lawrence.Butcher@cmu-cs-g.arpa (04/19/84)
Looking for a simple editor, eh? Let me suggest the Turbo Pascal system.
>From time to time people post messages of the form "FAST, FAST, FAST, you
won't believe how FAST...", but they are talking about the compiler. They
are correct. The compiler is FAST.
Turbo is also more than a compiler. The system contains a simple editor
which is initially configured as a subset of WordStar. The editor can be
re-configured to look like some other editors. It can be made to look
ALMOST like MINCE/EMACS for all single letter commands. The present Turbo
editor does not allow the ESC character to be used for a prefix character.
Turbo edits a character stream, like Mince. It does not support embedded
formatting info (like bold). Instead Turbo is distributed a separate program
which is a runoff-style formatter. No documentation, but there is an
example text file.
The Turbo editor is not everything to everyone. It is good enough for
simple program generation and simple text processing. Remember that
Pascal is in there somewhere. Cheap. Try it!!