CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET ("Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC") (02/07/88)
Since everyone else is throwing in their two cents, I thought I'd add to the
confusion and traffic ;-) This campus is filled with IBM PC's of all different
flavors (and a few clones as well) connected to the VAX cluster via fiber
optics/Ethernet/DECservers/etc.
Generally speaking, I hate IBM stuff (mainframes and PC's both). I've used a
variety of machines (Xerox Sigma 7 and the DEC-10 being favorites, and IBM 370
being last on the list). I like the VAX, but the one place it isn't up to
snuff is the editors. The wide variety of PC editors proves to me that there
are LOTS of good editors out there, as well as a number of lousy ones. After
15 years with various mainframe editors, I've switched to a PC editor called
Nota Bene which is wonderful for both the people here who want to write nice
ASCII files (programs, etc.) and those who want boldface, underlined,
justified, ump-teen pitch document stuff. And it's got a fancy programming
language, complete keyboard re-mapping, multiple windows, etc. It writes all
it's stuff in a simple ASCII format. (No fancy stuff to "export" to an ASCII
file.) I'm still learning TPU but I have yet to see where Nota Bene does not
out perform it.
As has been said before, choosing editors is a VERY personal activity. I
like to think that I'm flexible, since I do continue to learn new editors as
they come out, but I'm certain I have my biases like the rest of you out there.
As a final note, I'd like to say that if TPU produced LSE, it can't be a
complete waste ;-) since I DO find LSE kinda fun and useful.
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