Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!ogicse!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!scotth From: scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Editors Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 90 10:09:04 GMT References: <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: 840445m@aucs.uucp's message of 13 Feb 90 12:48:00 GMT In article <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) writes: Alan> I am in search for the ultimate text editor to use while Alan> programming, and I am wondering what some of you people use. I have Alan> tried the following and rejected them for the reasons given. [...deleted..] Alan> Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has Alan> different windows (resizable). What other features does it have? Alan> If it is pd or shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a Alan> copy? IMHO, the ultimate text editor would be to port GNU Emacs to the Amiga, but short of that, my current favorite is MG2B (originally MicroGnuEmacs). It opens a window (which may be borderless) on the workbench screen, has multiple re-sizable sub-windows (accessible from the keyboard), iconifies, supports multiple fonts, and some other stuff I didn't compile in. I am waiting for MG3 to show up (with an Arexx port, among other claimed enhancements, to add programmability). I think I got it off a Fish disk, but it may have been posted to comp.sources.amiga once upon a time, and might be at an archive site (if you can FTP). -- Scott Henry | These are my | Tardis Express -- when it Information Services, | Opinions only!| absolutely, positively Silicon Graphics, Inc | Whose else? | has to be there -- yesterday.