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- From: maven@mavenry.UUCP (Norman Hamer)
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!mavenry
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Sender: gateway@mavenry.UUCP
- Subject: Decent Editors
- Message-ID: <73647@mavenry.UUCP>
- X-CitNet-ID: 73647
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:05:43 GMT
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- Hullo.
-
- One of the major things preventing me from running unix on my home systems
- is that I have YET to see a decent editor under unix. While I recognize
- certain things are a little different because they're written for multiple
- terminals... I'm only using CONSOLE or an ANSI terminal emulation and at
- 14.4kbaud I'd prefer a clean screen than minimal updates ala vi.
-
- Basically, what I'm looking for is a Q-Edit analog... The things which are
- important to me are:
-
- 1) Backspace and Delete are TWO SEPERATE FUNCTIONS, darnit! Delete removes
- the character to the RIGHT, and should only be a synonym for backspace
- on
- a terminal which only has one key.
- 2) Auto-indenting and sticky indent for C.
- 3) Preferrably unlimited line length, else >= 256 characters.
- 4) The realization that if a user does "cursor down" and then types, that
-
- means to move the endpoint to the current position, not start typing at
- the endpoint.
- 5) Control Keys used for CONTROL functions, not to switch to command mode.
- 6) Preferrably pull-down menus for non-often-used functions.
- 7) The ability to load multiple files, copy blocks to/from other files
-
- Is there anything out there which does this? Can you tell me where to look?
- I'd write one, but I can't stand the editors I've seen long enough to write
- my own.
-