[comp.emacs] Wanted - An Editor Which Handles Long Lines

fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org (Frank Kaefer) (04/09/90)

kim@spock (Kim Letkeman) writes:

> JOVE does a nice job of scrolling each line as you edit it. It moves
> perhaps 20 or 30 characters at a time.
> GnuEmacs is less smooth in this area. You either accept wrapped lines
> (which I personally dislike) or you accept chopped lines.
> (some deletions made)

Well, what about MicroEmacs ? Version 3.10 has a very nice way to
handle long lines: it scrolls vertically, and you can set the
amount of characters to scroll (variable $hjump). MicroEmacs
can even handle very long lines. I once had a text with no CRs
(CR marks the end of a line in OS-9), only LF, so uEmacs
read the whole 200 kB in one line (!).

Cheers,
Frank

[P.S.: I think MicroEmacs is one of the best editors in our galaxy]
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datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (04/09/90)

>Can emacs or any other UNIX editor do horizontal scrolling?
     ^^^^^

"emacs" isn't a UNIX editor -- it's one of a variety of editors running on
a variety of machines and OS's.  MicroEmacs 3.10 certainly does horizontal
scrolling, current-line-only or all-lines-at-once as you wish.  A quick
perusal of Gnumacs (18.55) doesn't find the feature under any obvious names.

art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) (04/09/90)

Look at GNU's readline library.  It can be configured for vertical or
horizontal scrolling.  GNU EMACS most likely has this built in.
I use the readline library for making secure user interfaces and have
found it's other features nice (history, name completion etc.).