Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca!javelin.sim.es.com!glacier!cpetterb From: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway) Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 15:28:07 GMT References: <846.280ca9ab@vger.nsu.edu> Sender: news@javelin.sim.es.com Distribution: na Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu's message of 18 Apr 91 00:01:47 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mickey.sim.es.com In article <846.280ca9ab@vger.nsu.edu> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes: > Does anyone know of a "decent" program (ascii) editor for Unix (SYS V REV. > 4). By "decent" I mean anything that is not vi or emacs or versions thereof! > > I have heard that there is a VMS-like EVE editor, a WordStar-like editor, a > WordPerfice-like editor, etc. for Unix, but I haven't been able to trace them > to any FTP site or commercial product. > > You may or may not suppose that I am a Unix fan, but I am sincerely interested > in some kind of SCREEN-ORIENTED editor for Unix (on the Amiga) that does not > fall into the vi/emacs like functionality (or non-functionality). You appear to want a word processor program not a program editor. If you want a word processor, emacs may not be your cup of tea. Even as a program editor you may not like emacs (I agree about vi). But DON'T say that emacs is not a decent program editor. Emacs, by its proven popularity is a decent program editor. In an insane society the sane man must appear insane. Unless the world is insane, you are wrong. Maybe it is just your ignorance about emacs that is the problem. Are you really a professor? A statement as you made seems awfully narrow minded. My $.02 worth. Cary -- _______________ Cary Petterborg (801)582-5847 x6446 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Simulation Division SLC, UT 84108 UUCP: ...!uunet!sim.es.com!cpetterb *NET: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com