[comp.unix.aix] User Friendly Editors

F66035@BARILVM.BITNET (Drora Cohen) (02/06/91)

A short survey of VI, EMACS and INed showed that there is still a need
for a text editor that can use the window system in an effective and
user friendly manner.
Does anybody know of a mouse-and-menu driven editor, either commercial
or public domain ?
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                                                 Drora Cohen
                                                Computer Center
                                              Bar-Ilan university
                                               Ramat-Gan, Israel

RBNTJC@ROHVM1.BITNET (Thomas J Cozzolino) (02/07/91)

I've been searching for such an editor, also.

XEDIT from X11R3 is ok, but sort of buggy.
XEDIT from X11R4 is better, but I still haven't figured out how to
cut a block of text (marking and copying is easy).

I've been complaining to IBM about this as well.
I am sort of uncomfortable, however, with paying $1K per copy for a version
of EDT.

I guess we have to be patient.