BD05@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Roland Waldi) (11/18/89)
Hello all, I want to check if there is a market for another editor, or
better: an EDITOR and SHELL in one program (64kB). It looks very similar
to NEWLIB running on top of TSO on IBM mainframes at DESY (the best
editor/shell in the IBM mainframe world I have ever seen). Since most of
you won't know this one: it looks still close to XEDIT under VM/CMS, or
KEDIT for compatible PCs, or (but only slighly) to ISPF/PDF. It has a
line number field at the left, linecommands, powerful editor commands
like ALL, EXCLUDE, OVERLAY, SORT..., it has variable tabbing,
zone-selection, various find-modes, it offers fast(*) parallel editing
of large files, use of ALL 255 displayable characters in the
ST-8bit-ASCII extension, execution of PRG, TTP, TOS, WEX (exec or
"batch"), many shell commands like RESHOW, DIR (fullscreen!), CD, MD,
ERASE, RENAME..., 64 user-defined function keys and/or custom commands,
26 programmable keys (for any keystrokes), and it works around all those
nasty bugs in TOS 1.0/1.2 without you noticing it. It also has many
"little goodies", like keyclick-control, screen-invert,
hex-octal-decimal text display, hex-input, continuous size-display
(lines/kB/free RAM), key-status display (CAPSLOCK, INSERT...). However,
I didn't find a place where the mouse could be helpful. Finally, it
allows flexible custom exec-files: I use CLG to make an executable with
LASER C, or TEXD to invoke TeX with german hyphenation, or UNCR to
remove double-CR's and trailing blanks produced by our KERMIT, or
ABKSORT to sort abbreviations ignoring punctution and case, or FILEL to
list a date/time ordered directory, or FIRSTWORD to invoke 1stWORD in
its proper directory holding the RSC-file, or PLAY to invoke any of the
games installed on my harddisk, or UUDEARC to invoke UUD and ARC
consecutively, or ARCHIVE to ARC a whole subdirectory and copy it to
disk, .... (just a subsample to illustrate what can be done).
(*) It comes close to TEMPUS in most functions, except for screen
display, which takes 0.3 s for one completely new screen on a SM124
monitor--but 3 screens in one second is sure faster you can read,
and reaching line 16000 of a 32000-lines-file takes no more time
than advancing one line.
Now my question: Is there any interest in this product, except by me (of
course I wrote it to satisfy all my demands, but yours may differ)?
Would you buy it? At what price? Or is everybody happy with EMACS-like
editors or mouse-editors and Gulam or the Desktop? Any suggestions how
to get it out with a useful manual (it would be of no use for you
without manual, except for the basic features all other programs offer
as well), in a reasonable time, although my spare time for this project
is very limited?
if you feel addressed, please reply via E-mail
Roland Waldi, bd05@dkauni2.bitnet