Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!andytoy From: andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Editors Keywords: Small, good, fast Message-ID: <4925@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 26 Jul 88 15:06:57 GMT References: <838@taurus.BITNET> Reply-To: andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group) Organization: Dept of Computing Services, U of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Lines: 25 I am always using either the WATCOM Editor or EASE. Both of them have a command line at the top or bottom of the edit screen. A key toggles between the screen and command line. They are both powerful and fast. The Watcom Editor reminds me a bit of VI and EDT but not as versatile. EASE is developed by the EERC (Engineering Educational Research Centre) here at the University of Waterloo so it may be just local software, but it's great. It has a good help facility, billions and billions of commands and it's FAST. It's a bit big so I usually just use the WATCOM Editor for my small jobs because it'll fit on a disk with all my other handy dandy utilities like kermit, arc. etc... EASE with all its help files and stuff will fit on a 360K disk with some of my other stuff so it's not all that big. It's designed to be mainly a program editor so it has lots of features for programmers. Actually, the Watcom editor is also for programmers. It is the editor included with all the WATCOM Language Products (i.e. WATFOR77, COBOL, BASIC, APL, Pascal, etc...). Both of them are good and I use them regularly when I don't use MKS VI. VI is VI so I don't think there's much more to say about it. -- Andy Toy, Applications Support Group, Department of Computing Services (DCS), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1, 519/885-1211 x3417 UUCP: ...!watmath!watdcsu!andytoy NetNorth/BITNET: andytoy@watdcsu InterNet: andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu New: andytoy@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca