Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!higgin
From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Text Editors for the AMIGA (summary, long!)
Keywords: editors
Message-ID: <5786@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:16:37 GMT
References: <493@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <10940@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom MKT)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10940@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
$I use "z" which comes with Manx C. It's a "vi" lookalike, and has pretty much
$everything vi does except the "ex" commands. It is a very small subset of them
$but not large enough. Nonetheless, being a hardened Unix user, I'm right at
$home with "z". It loads up fast (I think it's 44K), resizes, and at least seems
$to be reentrant. I've had no problem "rez"zing it.
$
$Sean

I also like z a lot since I'm a vi fan, but it's hardly for inexperienced
users.  I tried stevie but found it to be too slow.
vi's symmetry and <move-actions> orientation is great once you get
used to it, but for people who use typewriters usually, forget it.  The
learn system under Ultrix teaches a lot about vi and would help if it were
available on the Amiga.

TextCraft Plus pleases a lot of first time users because it's SIMPLE.

But let's not get into an "editor war".

	Paul.

Disclaimer: these are my own opinions and not those of my employer.