DZOEY@UMD2.UMD.EDU (Joe) (09/06/85)
Hi, I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this has been talked
about, but I was recently given a TRS-80 M16B to play with. It
runs Xenix (2.3a I think). Unfortunatly the editor it comes with is
VI, about which I know very little. Are there any freeware full-screen
editors available for Xenix? I have a friend who managed to port
JOVE to his Unix box, but I was hoping for something a little more
powerful.
Is there anything out there? What about GNUemacs? Anyone had any
luck porting to a 68000?
Ta ta,
Joe
P.S. if this is the wrong group to post to, can someone pleas
tell me so I can figure which group I should be reading.
No .signiture file here!
Joe Herman
DZOEY@UMD2.ARPA
HERMAN@UMDD.BITNETbarryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (09/20/85)
Rand's E editor is available and copyright-abandoned in source.
I've got it running on my Fortune which is a Version VII with some
aspects of 4.2bsd with one fix: changing ldiv to Ldiv. I don't know
what sort of changes you'd need to get it running under Xenix.
E17 (the version I've got) supports two alternate files with up to
10 windows in each file. It also maintains a buffer of all changed lines,
a buffer of key strokes (nice if your system is apt to crash), and
automatically writes the old version of the document as ,NAME.
It's got a *huge* symbol table (I needed a fix to get Fortune's cc to
compile it) but doesn't take up much room once in binary - and can be
compiled file by file after all, instead of all at once.
Each function key can be set to any command or sequence of commands.
You can run any UNIX command on the document from within the editor,
either over the original text or inserting the results into the
original text.
It does NOT have word wrap.
It operates in overwrite rather than insert mode unless you've
turned on insert--and then it only inserts to the right margin.
But it's trivial to open more blank lines.
I prefer Fortune:Word (a Wang-like word processor) for many things, but
E17 is dfinitely my second choice.
--Lee Goldguyton@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (09/23/85)
The latest version of the Rand editor (E19) does have word wrap. Msg "distribu@rand-unix" to get more info. -- Jim