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