gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (02/07/89)
Hi,
Have you heard of a public domain editor program called
'BlackBeard Programmer's Editor'?
Seems like it supports a mouse, 10-file windowing, centering, stay-resident
(TSR), etc. But no words on bigger-than-64kbyte-file handling.
Does the program handle this?
If it does, it is just what I've wanted for long. Can some one post it on
comp.binaries.ibm.pc?
Hugh gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.eduschanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck) (02/08/89)
Blackbeards is a heck of an editor, if you have the horses. This summer, when I was questing for a shareware editor (still am, sigh), I came across Blackbeards on a local BBS. It is very Brief-like. It has oodles of power, it handles big files, windows, I *think* regular-expressions. The only reason I didn't like it was its large size(>200k?) and slow screen handling. I want something closer to QEdit in size, but more configurable. For me, that meant writing my own. I have an original 8088, so on an AT-class machine, Blackbeards would probably be zippy, same as with a faster hard disk. Chris -=- "I do not THINK in regular expressions, and I am not NP-complete!" --- Christopher Schanck, occasional human being. schanck@.cis.ohio-state.edu
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (02/08/89)
in article <111700028@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu says: > Have you heard of a public domain editor program called > 'BlackBeard Programmer's Editor'? > > Seems like it supports a mouse, 10-file windowing, centering, stay-resident > (TSR), etc. But no words on bigger-than-64kbyte-file handling. > Does the program handle this? Yes, the docs claim that it does virtual file editting. (ie files as large as your disk) My only complaint with it is that the windows seem to be of non-modifiable size and when you switch from one window to another the file in the window you are exiting is written out to disk and the file in the window you are entering is read in from disk. This can make window switching slow. The good part of it is the TSR'ing of it seems to work fine. The only problem I've seen is that it doesn't TSR fine under the MKS Toolkit shell. It's decent, but I still prefer MicroEmacs over it. I'm not in a position to post it. Also, please do not e-mail to me asking me to mail it to you. You can get it from the following BBS: DataBasics (517)337-0261 (located in E. Lansing, MI) 8-no-1, 300,1200,2400 It's an RBBS system and you'll need XMODEM to download and PKXARC or ARC to unpack it. I don't recall its exact name on the system, but it is something like BB.ARC Good luck, it's worth a try. John H. Lawitzke UUCP: ...rutgers!mailrus!frith!fciiho!jhl Michigan Farm Bureau ...decvax!purdue!mailrus!frith!fciiho!jhl Insurance Group ...uunet!frith!jhl "My other computer is an IBM RT Model 135"
brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) (02/11/89)
All this talk about Editors that use rodents, and I have not yet heard my favourite, Multi-Edit. Has any one else ever used this editor? It supports just about everything with the mouse, vi pop up menus. Cut and paste is especially suited for the mouse, and it is real easy to use. The editor supports virtual files, is fully configurable, has regular expressions for pattern matching, a powerful macro language, multiple windows (moveable and sizeable), and supports different configurations based on the filename extensions. This is not shareware, but a fully featured (ie not crippleware) product has been released for general distribution. The only thing it does not have is the users manual, which will help if you're a macro programmer. To get the manual, ya gotta buy it! It does have online help, though. My only beef is that it gets real slow when there is less than about 9k of memory left to work with. It gets into some heavy swapping then. Brian