From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 07:50:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA16756 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:50:04 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA16742 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:49:55 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA21023; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:49:26 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA07174; Tue, 28 Mar 95 09:47:53 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503281547.AA07174@olympus> Subject: Re: Slick-edit on FreeBSD - any takers? To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:47:52 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503251550.KAA16990@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Mar 25, 95 10:50:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1916 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I used to use SlickEdit back in my OS/2 days. You can set it to emulate several editors including Brief and Emacs. Does all kinds of cool stuff. Of course, I use vi now and bang my head up against the wall with any non-modal (ie non-vi) editor. Might be nice to try again. As always, it would depend on the cost. It is not cheap if I remember. Boyd > > > As it happens, the marketing person for Slick-Edit (a popular > PC editor) comes to my house every thursday (we started a > piano quintet..., but I digress.) > > Interestingly enough, she was telling me that Linux is now one of their > most popular operating systems. I imagine a lot of DOS/Windows people > are moving to Linux... > > Anyway, I put in a plug for FreeBSD. She indicated that it was the position > of the company to port SlickEdit to any operating system where they had > a request. > > Personally, I'm a 'vi' bigot from way back; but I thought it would be > good exposure for FreeBSD, etc... (You may notice they list Linux in > some of the SlickEdit adds in Dr. Dobbs, etc...) So, I would like > a show of hands of people who would consider purchasing this, etc... > > - Dave Rivers - > > p.s. The Linux port doesn't use X - they just hired someone to do that > work for them... So, the initial FreeBSD version would probably > be curses, etc... > > > p.p.s. Send me mail (ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com for now) and I'll try > and tally this up. However, I have 2400+ pieces of mail (it's a long > story) so things might get lost. If you *really* would like to see > this, call the microEdge directly, at 1-800-934-EDIT (that's the Sales > line) and let them know. > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________