840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) (02/13/90)
I am in search for the ultimate text editor to use while programming, and I am wondering what some of you people use. I have tried the following and rejected them for the reasons given. lse - kindof big and does not do *real* multiple reasons dme - does not do real tabs, cannot switch between windows without moving mouse uedit - window takes up whole screen and does not allow access to workbench because it covers up the icons. az - does not do real tabs, has not many features microemacs - kindof big and opens another screen. plus a few other ones. I am now forced to revert back to using lse which in my opinion is the lesser of the evils. uedit seems to be an excellent program but I must be able to size the window as I please. I could also not figure out how to get it to show me what line I am on (it would only show what page and what line on that page). Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has different windows (resizable). What other features does it have? If it is pd or shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a copy? thanks in advance for your help. -- + Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + + Acadia University + "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late + + WOLFVILLE, N.S. + to make the world a better place." + + 840445m@AcadiaU.CA + - Tommy Douglas +
a464@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dawson) (02/14/90)
> 840445m writes: > > Msg-ID: <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> > Posted: 13 Feb 90 12:48:00 GMT > > Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has different > windows (resizable). What other features does it have? If it is pd or > shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a copy? > > thanks in advance for your help. > -- > + Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + > + Acadia University + "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late + > + WOLFVILLE, N.S. + to make the world a better place." + > + 840445m@AcadiaU.CA + - Tommy Douglas + Mayhaps try CygnusEd Professional, from ASDG. I think it's the world's best editor, but I'd better stop there because having written it myself makes me prone to rambling on about it's features more than the net will tolerate. Give ASDG a call at (608) 273-6585 for more info. But yes, it does have real tabs and resizable windows, plus many other goodies. It is commercial. And it does tell you what line you're on. .Bruce Dawson.
scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) (02/14/90)
In article <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) writes:
Alan> I am in search for the ultimate text editor to use while
Alan> programming, and I am wondering what some of you people use. I have
Alan> tried the following and rejected them for the reasons given.
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Alan> Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has
Alan> different windows (resizable). What other features does it have?
Alan> If it is pd or shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a
Alan> copy?
IMHO, the ultimate text editor would be to port GNU Emacs to the Amiga,
but short of that, my current favorite is MG2B (originally MicroGnuEmacs).
It opens a window (which may be borderless) on the workbench screen, has
multiple re-sizable sub-windows (accessible from the keyboard), iconifies,
supports multiple fonts, and some other stuff I didn't compile in. I am
waiting for MG3 to show up (with an Arexx port, among other claimed
enhancements, to add programmability). I think I got it off a Fish disk,
but it may have been posted to comp.sources.amiga once upon a time, and
might be at an archive site (if you can FTP).
--
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Silicon Graphics, Inc | Whose else? | has to be there -- yesterday.mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Under Construction) Meyer) (02/15/90)
>> IMHO, the ultimate text editor would be to port GNU Emacs to the Amiga, But it won't run on a typical 1-meg Amiga. Other than that, I agree with you. >> but short of that, my current favorite is MG2B (originally MicroGnuEmacs). The binaries are on a fish Disk. Sources can be gotten from jade.berkeley.edu, in pub/mg (last time I looked, anyway) to compile under either Manx 3.6 or (sorta-kinda) Lattice 4.x. >> waiting for MG3 to show up (with an Arexx port, among other claimed >> enhancements, to add programmability). Yes, it's got an ARexx port. Also got a much-improved keyboard macro support, so you can name the keyboard macro "M-x rexx C-m compile C-m" as "compile", and do M-x compile and have it do make in the background, output going into a buffer after it's done. A side affect of this is the abilty to run keyboard macros inside keyboard macros. For those of you with funny keyboards, the 8bit character support has been worked out with input from people who use them regularly. The sources to various beta versions of mg3 are in the same place as mg2. There are known bugs in all the betas. One of these days, I'm going settle down, roll in the DECStation code, and do another beta.... <mike -- Il brilgue: les toves lubricilleux Mike Meyer Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave, mwm@berkeley.edu Enmimes sont les gougebosqueux, ucbvax!mwm Et le momerade horsgrave. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET
acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) (02/15/90)
In article <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes: >I am in search for the ultimate text editor to use while programming, and I >am wondering what some of you people use. I have tried the following and >rejected them for the reasons given. > > . > . >uedit - window takes up whole screen and does not allow access to workbench > because it covers up the icons. > . > . Uedit *does* allow access to the Workbench even though it opens its own screen. All you need to do is click the left mouse button in the title bar and Uedit will iconify its window onto the Workbench screen (in the manual this is called "tiny window"). To get it to restore its screen simply click the left mouse button in the tiny window. >plus a few other ones. I am now forced to revert back to using lse which in >my opinion is the lesser of the evils. uedit seems to be an excellent program >but I must be able to size the window as I please. I could also not figure >out how to get it to show me what line I am on (it would only show what page >and what line on that page). You can force Uedit to show you what line you're on by setting lines/page to 1. >Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has different >windows (resizable). What other features does it have? If it is pd or >shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a copy? I used to want resizable windows and for the editor to open its window on the Workbench screen till I began doing screen-shuffling (hitting the screen's front/back gadget or using L-Amiga M and N) and shuffle so often that I've installed a mouse accelerator utility (RSLClock a.k.a. ClockDJ) which also allows me to cycle through the various open screens by hitting and holding down the right mouse button while clicking the left mouse button. You should give one of these a try. Other utilities are available which provide similar function, I've just settled on ClockDJ. Note that Uedit's screen doesn't have front/back gadgets since, as I said earlier, you can just click in its title bar to make it go to tiny window. I've been a Uedit user for over a year and have been quite happy with it, especially in light of its eminent programmability (*every* key can be turned into a "program") however I'm in the process of re-evaluating CEDPro Version 2 (a.k.a. CygnusEd Professional 2.0)...it appears that they (ASDG and CygnusSoft) have improved it mightily since the first version. I'd check out CEDPro, too, I were you. I've redirected follow-ups to comp.sys.amiga; the tech content seems to be a bit low, IMHO, for this newsgroup. >+ Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + >+ Acadia University + "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late + >+ WOLFVILLE, N.S. + to make the world a better place." + >+ 840445m@AcadiaU.CA + - Tommy Douglas + -- Tony Sumrall author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...) acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]
duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) (02/18/90)
In my humble opinion, the best Amiga editor is CygnusEd. It's the fastest, has a full AREXX interface, good macro capability, allows multiple "views" of the same file or different files, and, most important, is bug fre and comes with an excellent manual. It is available from ASDG Inc. for a reasonable fee (I think I paid about $60.00, but I don't remember exactly) DUNCAN THOMSON