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Subject: Editors.
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 17:21:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 17:21:00 1987
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This is a refinement of my previous question about Appleworks.  What is the
best text editor out there (how to start a world war).  To be more specific:

1) I am mainly going to be editing files to be up/down-loaded from my main
host with Laserwriter, TeX, and those niceties.  I would like to do my
editing locally, therefore I would prefer either no embedded control
characters, or an easy conversion facility.

My current communication software is in Pascal, but I have a Dos 3.3 text file
to Pascal and vice versa utility, so I'm not completely picky about formats.

2) It has to be a screen editor and preferably as close to my beloved emacs as
possible.  Rebindable keys would be wonderful.

3) It has to recognize my old Sup'R'Terminal Bd and shift key mod.

The candidates I've seen advertised so far are AppleWorks (yes I know it does
more than word processing) and Word Perfect.  Any others out there?

P.S. <unrelated> I have Pascal system 1.1, did Apple go further with this system
(remember this was inherited), and if so what improvements have been made.  The
Pascal editor is moderately tortuous.  It is especially frustrating that Esc
means kill last change, rather than accept as in Vi.

Lyman

The man with the boring, but mercifully short, sign-off.