Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:16:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, ponds!gaia.coppe.ufrj.br!jonny@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Cc: ponds!bsi.com.br!lenzi@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU, ponds!FreeBSD.org!questions@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Textedit??? Message-ID: <199608240216.WAA16503@lakes.water.net>
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> > > // Maybe I'm the stupid one - is Textedit not an X based > > // editor? Is it more like an emacs or vi editor? > > > > No, you're right. Textedit is the "easyeditor" that comes with > > Sun's OpenWindows. Basically it have cut&paste, find&replace, > > and cursor motion. I know nothing more than this. But, yet, > > it's the preferred editor in our lab (bunch'o'lusers :) ). > > Well, if your hands aren't hardcoded to vi or emacs, then you > should really like nedit. Here at work, we use to use the > old Apollo Domain editor (the DM editor) and cried when all > the Apollo's were replaced with HPs. We were stuck with a > choice between a poor emulation of the DM editor and HPs > VUE editor. I brought over nedit to the HPs and have slowly > converted everyone. Engineers are using it now on all our > UNIX machines - HPs, Suns, FreeBSD PCs, and soon to be SGI. Well.... when we did the same conversion (from Apollos to HPs), our Apollo people simply couldn't take it - so they wrote a PAD-like editor. It has been _very_ popular. Unfortunately, it's a SAS internal-only tool, but, if you'd like, I'll ask again about making it available to an external audience. [It runs on the HPs and Linux, I'm one of the few, but growing, FreeBSD people at SAS.] > > Nedit has a lot of feature, cut & paste (rectangular too :)), > search and replace with wildcards, macros, split windows, > user preferences, etc. Motif look and feel, similar to XEmacs > without all the bloat. > > Maybe I convert one more, eh? ;-) > > Dan Eischen > deischen@iworks.interWorks.org - Dave R. -
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