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From: lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PM-based Programming Editor?
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.005604.15991@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 13 Sep 90 00:56:04 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.153854.28626@Octopus.COM>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <1990Sep9.153854.28626@Octopus.COM>, 
             by stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ):
> 
> The only editor I have seen for PM is the System Editor that is bundled with
> OS/2 1.2 SE. While it's "cute" and good for hacking batch files or munging 
> your CONFIG.SYS file, etc. It's a rather poor editor for programming. 
> (no macros, no brac and bracket matching, etc.)

There is a shareware programmer's editor available called DESCRIBE.
It provides some basic editing features, but as the author admits it
needs more work to be a real programmer's editor.

It has ok search and replace capabilities (ignore case, search forward
or backward, replace only if the found text is a word, not part of a
word, and some pattern matching.


It also has cut and paste, windowing (vertical and horizontal), and
the ability to change the font used (such as real large letters for
visually impared people, or small text so you can see more of your
code on the screen).

It also supports printing, including configuring the printer, and selecting
which portion of the document should be printed.

There is one programmer specific feature.  You can choose "compile" from 
the menu and the contents of the current menu is compiled using a command
you set in the configuration.  The output from this can be displayed in
another window.


It seems to work ok.

You can get it from the author at the following BBS number which is in
the "About" box:

     Lennane Advanced Products
     4047 N. Freeway Blvd.
     Sacremento, Ca. 95834
     (916) 646-1111
     BBS: (916) 929-3237, up to 2400 baud.

It is also available on my BBS, the University of Saskatchewan Fidonet
BBS, at (306) 966-4857, as the file DESCRIBE.ZIP in the OS/2
WordProcessing area.  Also available are the full-screen applications
MicroEmacs 3.10, and SEDT 4.1 (the Shareware version) in the Family
Applications WordProcessing area. (technically they are not family
apps, but both OS/2 and DOS executables are included so I put them in
there).


DISCLAIMER:
  This is NOT an endorsement by myself or the University of Saskatchewan.
  The above information came from about 5 minutes of playing with the 
  program and are just my impressions of its capabilities from those
  5 minutes.