Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: Programmer's Editor
Date: Thu, 24 May 90 18:13:37 GMT
Message-ID: <1990May24.181337.24824@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
References: <25178@netnews.upenn.edu> <3174@galena2.UUCP>

>weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
>>I'm a big emacs fan and have used Vi a bit when freemacs became 
>>too cumbersome on the old PC/AT.  Anyway, if anyone would care to comment
>>on their favorite editor, I would appreciate it.  I figured I'd go to the
>>experts.

I recommend an editor which is available for all the systems that you
will be using.  If you are using DOS only then any DOS editor will do
such as vi, ed, freemacs, microemacs, epsilon, brief, kedit, edt, etc...

If you are using multiple platforms then I would suggest that you get an
editor that is available across all platforms.  Assuming that you are
using at least DOS and UNIX then the obvious choices are vi and some
flavour of emacs.  If you have a VAX/VMS system too then you could get
EDT for DOS and UNIX too.  If you have IBM VM/CMS then you can use KEDIT
for DOS which is like XEDIT on CMS.
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