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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Text Editors for the AMIGA?
Keywords: editors
Message-ID: <14934@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 10:48:34 GMT
References: <469@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <469@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> tensi@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Tensi) writes:
>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:

Uedit fills this bill quite nicely.  I am using it extensively as an
editor for AmigaTeX.

>       - menu oriented

Yes.  All menu actions are duplicated on the keyboard, and you have
complete control over the menus, should you want to change them.

>       - request for files should be done by file requesters

Uses the Arp file requester.

>       - cut and paste by mouse selection

Yes.

>       - automatic word wrap

yes.

It's also the most customizable editor around.   If you don't like
something, you have full control over it, so you can change it to whatever
you like.  So you could have it act like emacs when you're using it, and
switch to a simpler, more intuitive setup for someone else.  

I don't know if there is a german version available, but the menus and
most of the information/error messages can be changed.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP