ouster@MACE.BERKELEY.EDU (John Ousterhout) (07/02/87)
This note is to announce the availability of Mx, a mouse-based editor for the X window system. Mx has a little of the flavor of MacWrite, including a point-click-type user interface, scrolling, a selection, and pull-down menus; it also has a little of the flavor of Emacs (keystroke bindings connecting to an underlying command language). It is a single-font editor, not a general WYSIWYG document production system, but supports multiple windows (on the same or different files) and allows copying between them. If you're interested in playing with Mx, there are sources, man pages, and a tutorial for beginners on the Hoser machine at Berkeley in the directory ~x/berkeley/mx. Included in the same directory subtree are sources and documentation for Tx, a terminal emulator program that has an Mx-compatible user interface and selection mechanism. The README file in the top-level directory explains what to do to install Mx and Tx. Apologies to those of you that don't have access to Hoser, but right now I can't make tapes or distribute Mx in any other fashion. The current version on Hoser is for XV10R4, and is based on the Sx toolkit. In a few months I hope to make available an X11 version that uses the X Toolkit. This version will also provide Mx windows as general-purpose widgets that you can use in any X application.