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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Editor
Message-ID: <2078@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 8 Oct 89 21:37:03 GMT
References: <8Z=r0qy00WE501I2hz@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <8Z=r0qy00WE501I2hz@andrew.cmu.edu>, ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) writes:
 > 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.
 > . . .
I agree.  It's very nice.  And it is one of the few editors that I know
which FULLY support the user's font and keymap.
 >  . . .                                                   It's certainly
 > better than some commercial efforts like TxEd, unless you really need
 > the ARexx,  . . .
Well, it certainly delivers more value per dollar, but I do not agree that
it's better.  I find it slower to load and slower to use, but that's not
a problem.  More serious: there is no macro facility of any kind.  Also
the file size is about 60K compared to TxEd's 24K.  This is, without a doubt,
partly due to the fact that TxEd uses the arp library, while Az does not.
 > . . .
 > The one caveat is that the doc file is in French, and if you ignore it
 > . . .
It's supposed to be on Fish Disk 228.  My copy came from a local board,
and its doc file is in English.  I assume that my copy is traceable to
the Fish Disk since the sysop has the Fish Disks.

Az is an excellent example of first rate Amiga software that is freely
distributable.  Our thanks are due to Jean-Michel Forgeas.

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