Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi Alternative Required Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 90 21:53:40 GMT References: <1616@ukpoit.co.uk> <109752@convex.convex.com> <9Z-7GK8@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Dec6.133414.28539@eik.ii.uib.no> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 [ I asked... if you want a good free editor then write one ] In article <1990Dec6.133414.28539@eik.ii.uib.no> birger@eik.ii.uib.no (Birger A. Wathne) suggested CRISP: > I have used it for some time, and my only complaint is that > installing it for a few different terminal types takes a lot of > time. It needs separate info-files for each keyboard and terminal > type. Exactly. One of the things that a UNIX editor needs is that it be easy to install. None of this customising for terminal types business (what's termcap/terminfo for then?) or having to pre-compile all your macros. Plus, Brief really wants a meta-key to work right, even more so than Emacs. And it really needs a memory mapped screen. This shows through in Crisp. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com