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From: mbelshe@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu (Mike Belshe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Editor with DecWindows
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Date: 3 May 91 16:06:28 GMT
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Reply-To: mbelshe@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu (Mike Belshe)
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In article <1991May2.150153.18386@cm.cf.ac.uk>, robert@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Evans) writes:
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|> I don't want to start any religious wars, but what editor do you use
|> with DecWindows?
|> 
|> I've been looking at DecStations with a view to purchase and can't find
|> a window-based editor.  Our local DEC sales people tell me they use
|> "vi" in a dxterm window if they're using an Ultrix workstation.  This
|> is not a window-based editor though.  That would be one which allows
|> mouse interaction for positioning the cursor, cut and paste etc.
|> Have I missed some DecWindows utility?  (We don't have any
|> documentation, of course).  Isn't there anything that's similar to
|> Sun's textedit in it or in the Public Domain.  How well does the X
|> version of GNU emacs work under DecWindows?  Can you cut, paste &
|> position with the mouse in that?
|> --


how about dxnotepad?  It is a simple editor - but it does have cut and paste and things.

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Mike Belshe
mbelshe@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu
EL/EE System Administrator
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo