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From: ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Editor
Message-ID: <8Z=r0qy00WE501I2hz@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 89 16:05:10 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I have discovered, through serendipitous experimentation, a really great
(albeit obscure) public domain text editor that tops everything I've
seen, except perhaps CygnusEd... it's called AZ, and it's a french
import.  It has a clean interface, and is extremely well-programmed from
the Amiga perspective (uses the clipboard, RJ Mical's file requestor,
opens multiple windows, iconifies, has scroll arrows next to one
another, and dozens of other little features that are extremely useful).
 Plus, it has something I've never seen in a text editor before (or, for
that matter, any Amiga WP programs...) an UNDO function!  It's certainly
better than some commercial efforts like TxEd, unless you really need
the ARexx, and the author doesn't demand any exhorbant shareware fee for
a "nondistributable version with added features like text entry, load
and save options, etc.'

The one caveat is that the doc file is in French, and if you ignore it
you miss some nice features (such as how to make the window colors more
pleasant).  Still, for the non-francophobe programmer, this is certainly
one of the best.  Get it NOW.