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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Full screen editors for Xenix
Message-ID: <2358@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 21:31:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 21:31:50 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

Rand's E editor is available and copyright-abandoned in source.
I've got it running on my Fortune which is a Version VII with some
aspects of 4.2bsd with one fix:  changing ldiv to Ldiv.  I don't know
what sort of changes you'd need to get it running under Xenix.

E17 (the version I've got) supports two alternate files with up to
10 windows in each file.  It also maintains a buffer of all changed lines,
a buffer of key strokes (nice if your system is apt to crash), and
automatically writes the old version of the document as ,NAME.
It's got a *huge* symbol table (I needed a fix to get Fortune's cc to
compile it) but doesn't take up much room once in binary - and can be
compiled file by file after all, instead of all at once.

Each function key can be set to any command or sequence of commands.
You can run any UNIX command on the document from within the editor,
either over the original text or inserting the results into the
original text.

It does NOT have word wrap.
It operates in overwrite rather than insert mode unless you've
     turned on insert--and then it only inserts to the right margin.
     But it's trivial to open more blank lines.
I prefer Fortune:Word (a Wang-like word processor) for many things, but
     E17 is dfinitely my second choice.

--Lee Gold


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