tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) (10/20/88)
Subject: The Ultimate Programming Editor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Keywords: editor text programming
'Preditor', a programming editor, will be commercially available
(released) in January of 1989. A DEMO of this program will be uploaded
to various bulletin boards (included here) in 1 month.
The main 'features' of Preditor are:
* True Rectangular Editing (Copy/Cut/Paste rectangular blocks of text)
* Collapse by selection
* Collapse by indentation
* Unlimited Undo/Redo
* Supports tags (like UNIX ctags)
* Markers (ala MPW)
* Understands 6 programming languages (extendable)
* Bolds reserved words
* Understands the comment delemiters
for each language
* Use any combination of suffix filters (ie: .c)
to filter files
* Each window is splittable
* 'Grep' like pattern searching
* Search & Open multiple files at a time
* Autosave
* Supports background operations in Multifinder (searching,
tab conversion, etc)
* Uses MPW info on MPW text files (marks, window position,
and selection info)
* Fully user configurable
* Excellent window management w/ Multifinder
* Plus . . checks/matches brackets, find impossible
characters, and all that kind of good stuff.
- Macros capability will be available in the subsequent
release in March 1989
This program will run on any Macintosh, execpt the Mac 128K.
More information if available upon request.sarrel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) (10/21/88)
Gee, sounds like they've ported GNU Emacs to the Mac... :-) (Yes, I know there is already a GNU Emacs for the Mac, but the Mac version doesn't compare with the version I run on the Suns at school.) -- Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277 sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington. Spokane!" -- Cleric Apton