adjones@mcnc.UUCP (Amy D. Jones) (01/15/87)
I'm tired of Ed's weirdness with <CTRL>-characters and Tab expansion (etc), so I'm looking around for an alternate editor. uEmacs (The Extras 1.2 version) is very powerful, but I don't really like the way it 'feels'. The multiple-character commands (i.e., ^X^D, ^Xe, ^X^X,...) seem clumbsy to me--wouldn't it have been nicer to have used the 'Amiga'-key combinations instead (though I suppose it wouldn't be uEmacs then). Anyway, my point is that I've played with the TxEd 1.3 demo and I really like it. I know some of you have it & I'm hoping you can give me some information about its capabilities. In particular, I'm interested in the following features: - Does it support any sort of macro structures--or can it take input from an external file? This one feature (command files) has made the 'Edit' line editor very useful to me. - How about repeated commands? By this I'm referring to the Ed *rp(..) or Edit 0(..) type of structure. - Is it easy to insert an external file at a certain point. I've never seen an editor without this capability, but I thought I'd ask since I didn't see how to do it from the demo (no instructions). - How easy is it to export a marked block to another file? This is very easy with Ed -- not so easy with uEmacs -- very slow with Edit. Those specific questions come to mind, but anything else you want to throw in (special likes/dislikes) would also be appreciated. If there are any other screen editors that I don't know about (Does anybody have MetaScribe from Metadigm?) please tell me. -->...........................aTdHvAaNnKcSe............................<-- --> // Amiga | adjones@mcnc / UNC@CH Chemistry / PLink: ohs733 <-- --> \X/ Amy | Amy Jones; RR 4, Box 411; Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <-- -->....................................................................<--
blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (01/18/87)
TxEd has no command file, or repeat command functions, sorry.
However it has a slick (maybe quick & dirty) way of doing cut & paste
between files (or import/export of a section). You simply open a second
(or third or....) copy of TxEd, and using the clipboard, cut & paste
between the two (or more) copies of TxEd till you've got what you need.
I hate ED, both ED and EDIT have been deleted from my C dir, and
replaced with TxEd. I'm not sure if TxEd is worth the $60 list, but I
only paid $35-$40 for it from Go-Amiga. Well worth that price! Buy it!
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In article <501@mcnc.UUCP> adjones@mcnc.UUCP (Amy D. Jones) writes: > >I'm tired of Ed's weirdness with <CTRL>-characters and Tab expansion (etc), >so I'm looking around for an alternate editor. >I know some of you have it >[TxEd 1.3] & I'm hoping you can give me some information about its >capabilities. Well, I have TxEd 1.1 (I didn't know 1.3 was available..guess I should have sent in the little card, huh)...I'll try to answer. >In particular, I'm interested in the following features: > > - Does it support any sort of macro structures--or can it take input from > an external file? Nope. > > - How about repeated commands? By this I'm referring to the Ed *rp(..) > or Edit 0(..) type of structure. None that I've found. > - Is it easy to insert an external file at a certain point. I've never > seen an editor without this capability, but I thought I'd ask since > I didn't see how to do it from the demo (no instructions). Well, I must admit is is counter-intuitive. You have to use MORETXED to open a second copy of TxEd, paste the file you want into the clipboard, and then pick it up with Insert on the first copy of TxEd. Did that make sense? > - How easy is it to export a marked block to another file? This is > very easy with Ed -- not so easy with uEmacs -- very slow with Edit. This is the same, basically, as the question above. You export the marked block to the clip, pick it up with another copy of the editor, and do whatever you want to do with it there. >Those specific questions come to mind, but anything else you want to throw >in (special likes/dislikes) would also be appreciated. It has the best disclaimer in the business! Also, I couldn't find a way to remove nulls from a file. Oh, and I think it doesn't use the system keymap, because I couldn't find a way of making an e' (for the word resume') properly. Hope this helps. Michael