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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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