Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TEMPUS Keywords: editor/word processor Message-ID: <459@electro.UUCP> Date: 4 Apr 89 13:38:26 GMT References: <1445@blake.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON Lines: 39 In article <1445@blake.acs.washington.edu> a360ad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Gnurr) writes: >I have recently use the TEMPUS editor demo. >THink it fantastic... though i am still partial to emacs... >but could see making the transition for some of the slick and >fast features of TEMPUS.... > >DOes anyone have any complaints about the editor? > >I hear that TEMPUS people are working on a word processor... is it >available yet? > >Hope i haven't hurt anybody's feelings for asking...... not my feelings. tempus is a great, FAST, text editor. i wish GEM was even close to this speed. some of the keyboard equivalents to the menu bar are a bit bizarre (ie: ctrl-l is find word option), but nonetheless, it is well worth the price. another pretty good editor which rivals TEMPUS in features is C-BREEZE by michitron. the best feature about it is that it supports the 6 by 6 system font. like 120 columns by 60 rows (or something close to that)!!!! it also has an EXCELLENT (to quote bill and ted) macro lanquage built in. with it you can reprogram the keyboard, menus, etc so that C-BREEZE can look like any other text editor. even emacs. i think it even comes with an emacs configuration file. the only thing it doesn't support is the command mode, insert mode metaphor that VI uses. thats a real bummer since i love the power of vi. but oh well, at least i can make it work like the turbo pascal editor, thats pretty well powerful enough. about the wp, i haven't heard anything yet. hope that helps. :-) -- Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig) watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac "Those who can't, criticize" (author unknown) "ain't it ironic that according to Rushton, Suzuki is right!"