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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
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Subject: Re: CYGNUS vs GNU (Was Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ?  (MicroEmacs?))
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Note: I moved this as I fear some sort of editor war coming up, let's
make sure it takes place in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy!

Adam Hill writes:
> Wait for TurboText by Martin Tallifer. There is a demo of it on ab20.larc.
> nasa.gov.

Well, as a long time CygnusEd user, I can safely say that while TurboText
looks ok [ARexx port (unlike CED, there is one for every edit window
open, which is a nice touch that I have hoped CED would add for some time),
powerful ARexx command set (like CED), user configurable menus (unlike CED),
``bookmarks'' (like CED), a feature they call folds (allows for hiding
text, CED does not have this sort of thing built-in, but I wrote ARexx
macros to do the same thing about 1-1/2years ago!),  they also claim to
support :
``Supports sophisticated text templates, including special template sets
  for C, Modula-2, Ada, Assembly, and COBOL programming'',
the templates aren't too sophisticated or special.  Not at all as
powerful as those under LSE under VMS, which I would consider
powerful enough to be of any use.  It seems to get real confused
if you hit the expand key more than once over the same `token'
twice! :-)], BUT they are missing some powerful CED features that
us power hungry users have come to expect, for example:

NO undo to speak of!  Once you even move the cursor from the
last line edited, no undos can take place, ie they have a one
line undo that it forgets about as soon as you move off the line!
(Hell, I thought that Gold Disk was the only company making
`Professional' software without undo features! :-) :-)

Only two views into a file at one time, with each document opening
into it's one window.  This actually makes switching between docs
a pain in the butt, IMHO.

Count me out, I stick with the power of CED.  But do get the demo,
you may decide that TurboText is your cup of tea.  But at the
same price as CED with less power, why?

Loren J. Rittle
--
``In short, this is the absolute coolest computer device ever invented!''
                   -Tom Denbo speaking about The VideoToaster by NewTek
``your pathetic architectures won't support it'' - Kent Paul Dolan
``Think about NewTek's VideoToaster!  Now think about the Amiga!''
Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu