KPH107@DJUKFA11.BITNET (02/21/90)
Date: 20 February 1990, 09:49:35 MEZ
From: Vilmar KLemt (49) 02461/61-4391 KPH107 at DJUKFA11
KFA Juelich
To: INFO-ATA at WSMR-SIMTEL20
David Megginson writes:
>I've spent half my life trying to escape from CMS (Xedit, etc.). Well,
>OK, not half my life, but it's close. The University of Toronto gives
Using CMS/Xedit daily on a mainframe IBM I am astonished that the
qualities of the Xedit editor have not been recognized yet in the
Atari world. Bruce Blanar should be highly praised if he would port
it to the ST.
Or can anybody tell me another editor that is as powerful and yet as
easy to use? Isn't the commandline orientation a very useful alternative
to other editors?
Does any other editor support such useful commands as
SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY etc.?t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) (02/21/90)
> From: Vilmar KLemt (49) 02461/61-4391 KPH107 at DJUKFA11 > > Using CMS/Xedit daily on a mainframe IBM I am astonished that the > qualities of the Xedit editor have not been recognized yet in the > Atari world. Bruce Blanar should be highly praised if he would port > it to the ST. > Or can anybody tell me another editor that is as powerful and yet as > easy to use? Isn't the commandline orientation a very useful alternative > to other editors? > Does any other editor support such useful commands as > SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY etc.? Actually many of the micro editors are much easier to use, thanks to a much better interplay between user keyboard screen and mouse. You have a large choice of editors on for instance the Atari. If you don't like a window orientation and hate vi or emacs there is still the very powerful editor STedi which takes much of its user friendliness from the Apollo editor (and several others), is extremely easy to use and very fast. It can do many things your XEDIT cannot do. If you want to know whether other editors know the commands `SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY' you better explain what they do. I have the impression from their names that most decent editors that can handle several buffers (or windows) have some like it but under a different name. Actually the next version of STedi will even be far more powerful as judged from the beta version. It has full regular expressions and a complete macro language. If SHIFT is what I think it to be the regular expression //^/=/ / (replace begin of line by blank) should do the job (and so on) Actually discussing editors is like discussing religion. Its hard to convince a Jehova witness. Jos Vermaseren