Re: SEUL: Text editors.

[Cyberdyn <cyberdyn@seul.org>]

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On 15-Feb-98 Kevin Forge wrote:
- -> Most X Based editors are OK.  Nedit could be a default editor ( the one
- -> that pops up when you double click on a file that may be text )
- -> ... This is part of the 'S' in our title 

Nedit isn't free it's linked to motif.

- -> I CAN'T use pico.  I have tried.  it just doesn't suite me very well.
- -> Why ?  I learned about PCs on a DOS/Win3.0, I then played around with
- -> a Coleco Adam ( I've only met 3 people who recognize the name as a 
- -> computer ), Apple 2, Commodore 64/128 Macs and of course more DOS/win
- -> PCs.

Can you use pine?  If you can use edit.com you can use pico.  If you can use
lynx or pine, you can use pico.  I think you are thinking of vi.  Pico has
all the commands listed at the bottom of the screen.  It's an editor version
of pine.

BTW, pico isn't free either.  It may be free enough but that's debatable.

- -> I never quite got WordStar down ( even though my current console editor
- -> is allegedly like it ... JOE ).  Word Perfect 5.0/1 ( can't remember 
- -> which I touched first ) was "easy".  All the Windows Word processors 
- -> imitated it.  MSDOS edit.com is like it too.  What I am getting at here 
- -> is that this may be the only app the SEUL needs to write from scratch.
- -> a text editor with basic functionality.

This is a very strange thing to say.  I can use edit.com blindfolded but
can't do a damned thing in WP5.0/1 without using a menu pop-up and scanning
the menu's for what I want to do.  F5 opens a file in WP but alt-o does in
all MS products.  F7 exits WP but alt-x exits all MS products.  alt-s saves
in MS products but, I think it's shift F7 in WP.

Where's the similarity?



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E-Mail: Cyberdyn@seul.org       Date: 15-Feb-98        Time: 18:24:03
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