jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) (12/14/90)
m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU >Might I suggest dumping the Orca editor for Rose 16 from Randy Brant (Yes, of >AppleWorks fame)? It's a slick FAST editor with mega options. I won't use >the Orca editor anymore. >BTW, as I remember, Rose is shareware. What's the latest version of Rose? I haven't logged into GEnie lately. The last I have is 0.56, but it's so bugged up I still use 0.53. (0.56 attempted to include support for REAL tabs, but it didn't work right at all). Rose still has some bugs, including the cursor moving to bizarre places under certain conditions, garbage getting appended to files, buffer names getting trashed when the editor is called from an aborted compile, and a few others. But it's nice because it works just like AppleWorks (there's an APW work-alike, also). I probably ought to use EMACS, but I don't want to learn it! There was also another alternative editor- the Hurricane Editor, by Jason Blochowiak. It was somewhat unusable because of it's beta status, but it was very nice. It had text pull down menus, mouse control for everything, Hypertext help, and bunches of nice features. Whatever happened to Jason, anyway? Are you still out there? -- Jawaid Bazyar | Being is Mathematics Senior/Computer Engineering | Love is Chemistry jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | Sex is Physics Apple II Forever! | Babies are engineering
bclark@pro-harvest.cts.com (Brian Clark) (12/15/90)
In-Reply-To: message from jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu >From what I've seen of the ROSE 16 Editor is that it is extremely fast and does use the same key commands as the ORCA Shell editor... which is real nice. Real Tabs would be nice (cut down on code size). But the one BIG problem I see with the ROSE 16 Editor is that it doesn't support past 80 Columns. While this may be fine for assembler programmers, it makes it near worthless for C programmers like me. My guess also is that is one of the reasons the ROSE editor is faster than ORCA's. (Oh yeah, multiple files is pretty nice in ROSE also). ___________________________________________________________________ | ||| | | Brian Clark ||| \ ProLine: bclark@pro-harvest | |------------------|-|--=> InterNet: bclark@pro-harvest.cts.com | | "][gs Forever!!" ||| / UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!bclark | |__________________|||______________________________________________|