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From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Editors
Message-ID: <879@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 15 Feb 90 00:58:47 GMT
References: <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <1990Feb13.124800.2175@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
>I am in search for the ultimate text editor to use while programming, and I
>am wondering what some of you people use.  I have tried the following and
>rejected them for the reasons given.
>
> .
> .
>uedit - window takes up whole screen and does not allow access to workbench
>	   because it covers up the icons.
> .
> .

Uedit *does* allow access to the Workbench even though it opens its own
screen.  All you need to do is click the left mouse button in the title
bar and Uedit will iconify its window onto the Workbench screen (in the
manual this is called "tiny window").  To get it to restore its screen
simply click the left mouse button in the tiny window.

>plus a few other ones.  I am now forced to revert back to using lse which in
>my opinion is the lesser of the evils.  uedit seems to be an excellent program
>but I must be able to size the window as I please.  I could also not figure
>out how to get it to show me what line I am on (it would only show what page
>and what line on that page).

You can force Uedit to show you what line you're on by setting lines/page
to 1.

>Please let me know what you use and whether it does real tabs, has different
>windows (resizable).  What other features does it have?  If it is pd or
>shareware, where can I get it or can you send me a copy?

I used to want resizable windows and for the editor to open its window on
the Workbench screen till I began doing screen-shuffling (hitting the
screen's front/back gadget or using L-Amiga M and N) and shuffle so often
that I've installed a mouse accelerator utility (RSLClock a.k.a. ClockDJ)
which also allows me to cycle through the various open screens by hitting
and holding down the right mouse button while clicking the left mouse
button.  You should give one of these a try.  Other utilities are available
which provide similar function, I've just settled on ClockDJ.

Note that Uedit's screen doesn't have front/back gadgets since, as I said
earlier, you can just click in its title bar to make it go to tiny window.

I've been a Uedit user for over a year and have been quite happy with it,
especially in light of its eminent programmability (*every* key can be
turned into a "program") however I'm in the process of re-evaluating
CEDPro Version 2 (a.k.a. CygnusEd Professional 2.0)...it appears that they
(ASDG and CygnusSoft) have improved it mightily since the first version.
I'd check out CEDPro, too, I were you.

I've redirected follow-ups to comp.sys.amiga; the tech content seems to
be a bit low, IMHO, for this newsgroup.

>+ Alan W. McKay       +  VOICE: (902) 542-1565                        +
>+ Acadia University   +  "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late   +
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>+ 840445m@AcadiaU.CA  +                    - Tommy Douglas            +
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Tony Sumrall   author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...)
acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs

[ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed
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