Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!nyser!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Text Editors for the AMIGA? Keywords: editors Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 89 23:36:23 GMT References: <469@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 45 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); > - menu oriented > - request for files should be done by file requesters > - cut and paste by mouse selection > - automatic word wrap I have been very satisfied with ASDG's CygnusED. It cost less than $100 and so far has out-performed anything else I've used. I've never seen it crash, the scrolling is great (fast, variable speeds, you define certain variables), the user-interface is good too. I had meant to post a review to the net but I haven't had time :-(. Another nice thing about it is that you can re-map the keyboard so that it has the same commands as other editors. They include a sample file that makes it work like Emacs. It also hybernates. If you exit it with Amiga-Q, it will just close it's screen and deallocate as much memory as it can. Pressing Left-ALT, Left-SHIFT, Return brings it back up. I don't have ARexx, but you can program it through that plus they supply sample code that communicates to it through C. It also does column-block moves/copies, text-reformatting (like GNUEmacs fill-region) and it will even ROT13 a block! The only thing that it doesn't do is handle files that are larger than memory (that would slow it down) and it doesn't run on a VAX... which means that at work I have to use a slightly less-powerful editor :-) :-). > Thomas Tensi, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli Drew University Madison NJ 201-408-5389 tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet limonce@pilot.njin.net "Fences make good neighbors" -Frost "I want an MMU" -Me Standard disclaimer? No, we're still on the dpANS disclaimer.