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From: tensi@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Tensi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Text Editors for the AMIGA?
Keywords: editors
Message-ID: <469@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 11 Jan 89 12:37:37 GMT
Reply-To: tensi@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Tensi)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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Hi,

I'm looking for text editors for the AMIGA for two kinds of applications:

  1. an ASCII-Editor for use together with AmigaTeX (sort of programmer's
     editor with word wrap);
     I currently use emacs for that and I think it's absolutely adequate, but
     it's not intuitive enough for naive users (very cryptic sometimes). The
     following things are necessary:

       - menu oriented
       - request for files should be done by file requesters
       - cut and paste by mouse selection
       - automatic word wrap

     If the program used Intuition as a communication medium (lots of
     requesters and message boxes etc.), that would be fine. Also a product
     with a German interface is preferred (but that's not strictly necessary).

     I heard about a new product from a German firm (Data Becker), which is
     called "EDwork" and seems to be quite configurable (obviously even the
     menus can be changed). Can anyone from the Germany comment on that?

  2. Although I can manage AmigaTeX quite well (by the way, I think it's an
     excellent product!), some people here can't and need a good WYSIWYG
     editor. [Don't be confused by the fact that I'm working for a computer
     science department. The guys who have the Amigas (besides me) are in the
     engineers department, but are somewhat computer-phobics (e.g. my father!
     :-) ]. The program should support the following:

       - intuitive interface (file requesters, menus etc.)
       - different fonts, sub- and superscripting visible on screen
       - cut and paste by mouse selection
       - automatic word wrap
       - dictionary (English and German)
       - smooth operation (fast screen update even for fast typers; printing
         shouldn't last a lifetime)
       - some sort of support for math symbols (e.g. greek characters)

     If there was some way to do tables, this would also be fine (engineers
     like them :-). Of course I don't expect sophisticated formula input to be
     possible (but maybe it is).


Sorry for the long message, but I hope other people can also profit from that.

Many thanks,

Thomas Tensi, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen,
Arcisstr. 21, 8000 Muenchen 2, West Germany
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