mjt@hyperion.wustl.edu (Mike Turmon) (04/05/91)
Netters, I was interested in a text editor for the mac, specifically one that was powerful and configurable like GNU emacs and easy to use with OzTeX, the freeware macintosh TeX. The question was essentially the following: >*** I have two questions: > > Is QUED/M 2.09 one of the more powerful text editors for the mac? > Are there others that should be considered? Why? > > Is there somewhere an archive of useful QUED/M macros? > >I am accustomed to Gnu emacs under UNIX, a very powerful and configurable >editor indeed. In fact I have a mammoth set of macros that I use with >emacs. (I have used microEmacs on the mac and it is too wimpy.) Responses follow. ------------------------------------------------------ From folta@cs.UMD.EDU Fri Mar 15 23:27:47 1991 I use Nisus, which I think is basically the same as QUED, with the addition of wordprocessor features. I think it is probably the best you can get. I especially like the Mark feature, which lets me tag key macros and jump back to them easily (I write a lot of TeX macros). Also, since the formatting is saved in the resource fork and the ascii text in the data fork, I can use bold and italic, etc, to make my TeX file easy to navigate, while OzTeX sees only plain ASCII. There is a Nisus mailing list, but I firget who you write to to get on it. Wayne ------------------------------------------------------ I use Alpha, and I'm very happy with it. It is very much like emacs, and since it is programmable, you can make it look like your favorite version of emacs. You can also edit multiple files. It's available from the sumex archives and it's $25 shareware. The shareare fee is well worth paying. I receive upgrades at least monthly, and usually more often than that. I've reported bugs and had the author repair them within days! I use it with OzTeX all the time. Rick Zaccone zaccone@bucknell.edu ------------------------------------------------------ From johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu Sun Mar 17 15:49:22 1991 I suggest that you try "Alpha", available in /public on titan.rice.edu. It is ostensibly an emacs implementation; I have it set up differently so I don't know how close to the mark it comes, emacs-wise. -- Bill ------------------------------------------------------ From hoepfner@heawk1 Sun Mar 17 16:09:16 1991 There is also something called "Nisus" the big brother to QUED/M. Nisus has a lot of scripting capability and macros can be found on the net. There is even a group on the net. If you want to get added to this group (this is just a mail exploder address - not a net group) send your request to "nisus-info-request@sirius.UVic.CA" The mail exploder address is: "nisus-info@sirius.UVic.CA" The address for these macros is "weber.ucsd.edu" (128.54.16.129). Look in ~ftp/pub/tmp/NisusMacros. ------------------------------------------------------ a very nice shareware editor based on emacs is alpha, i've configured it to feel like gnuemacs. it's available by anonymous ftp from sumex.stanford.edu as ./info-mac/apps/alpha-350.hqx. curt ct@caf.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------ From dore@dm.unibo.it Wed Mar 20 08:25:26 1991 I don't know QUED/M 2.09, however I think there are two other good choices: - McSink 7.0 has the great advantage of being a desk accessory; it cannot search for regular expressions, but it allows wildchars - Alpha 3.50 is a fully configurable application allowing the search for regular expressions, the use of marks, and of more than one cllpboard They are both shareware and are stored at sumex-aim. I hope this helps you. Giovanni ------------------------------------------------------ | Mike Turmon mjt@hyperion.wustl.edu | A characteristic movement in | | Department of Electrical Engineering | such a condition is to run your | | Washington University, Saint Louis | little finger along your eyebrows. | -- --