From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 19:52:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA05926 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05919 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id TAA20122 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA17300; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:50:02 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:50 EDT Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00279; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA16503; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:16:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:16:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199608240216.WAA16503@lakes.water.net> To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, ponds!gaia.coppe.ufrj.br!jonny@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Textedit??? Cc: ponds!bsi.com.br!lenzi@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU, ponds!FreeBSD.org!questions@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > // 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. -