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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: clarification, new wack, closing Input()?,
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Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 13:45:37 EDT
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> 
> I use a very EMACS-like editor on the PC called Epsilon.  They have a neat
> feature that lets you "spawn" tasks in the background, and the editor
> "captures" the output of these tasks in buffers.  It actually gives you
> Command.com so you can type in your own commands.  Not only that, you
> can page up and down to see lines that have scrolled off the top, and
> can cut and past from it to other buffers, and can cut and past commands
> from one prompt line to the current prompt, which saves retyping of
> commands.
> 

The EMACS on the Commodore Software Tools disk does this to some extent. 
You can capture the output of any command into an EMACS buffer. It was
part of the Developers 1.2 disk set, I don't know how they plan on 
marketing it to the "real" world.

> Other features of epsilon that I think are great are two other modes it
> has and incremental-search and completion.  The two modes are "bufed" and
> "dired".  Bufed let's you move the cursor around in a buffer containing
> the list of buffers (like obtained with ^X^B) and if you hit "e", you
> switch buffers to the one with the cursor on it.  Dired works similarly,
> except that it asks for a file matching pattern and gives a disk directory.
> "e" in Dired mode is like ^X^V the file with the cursor on it.  Incremental
> search is nice in epsilon... You hit ^S and it gives the search prompt,
> then ^S again retrieves the last search pattern.  Instead, if you start
> typing in a search string, it starts the incremental search.  Backspacing
> causes the search to go back to the previous match for the string (minus the
> character erased with backspace).  ESC leaves the cursor on the current
> line and terminates search, ^G aborts search and leaves cursor on the line
> when the search was first started.  Completion is handy... you start typing
> in a word (as part of a command) and hit spacebar and epsilon tries to 
> finish the word for you.  If it can't finish it all the way, it goes as
> far as it can.  If you hit ?, it gives a list of all the possible matches
> given what you've typed so far.  Completion works for filenames and meta/
> typed in commands.
> 
No dired or bufed but microemacs v30 and one of the other ones (3.6 maybe)
does incremental searches. (Personally, I would prefer access to a "teco
minibuffer sigh).

> Anyone out there use any other editors for the Amiga?  How about MetaScribe,
> TxED, Lattice Screen Editor?  Any reviews would be helpful.

I use TxED when I am doing code stuff because it is extremely tight code,
that lets me leave it running all the time. I pop out of it to compile and
them pop back in to fix errors. The latest version does really *fast*
screen updates. It also comes with proff on the disk so that you can do
formatting too.

--Chuck McManis

Disclaimer: These are my opinions.