Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:12:44 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: ponds!nuucp, ponds!ponds!gaia.coppe.ufrj.br!jonny Cc: ponds!ponds!FreeBSD.org!questions, ponds!ponds!bsi.com.br!lenzi Subject: Re: Textedit??? Message-ID: <9608240312.AA29966@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> > 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.] I'm also _very_ happy with nedit, but I'll give anything a try. If you can get the sources released to an external audience, I'll try your editor if you try nedit ;-) Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.interWorks.org
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