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- Subject: Re: Looking for Ultrix based X-Window Text Editor
- Message-ID: <C1C9ow.78J@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
- From: shea@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Gary Shea)
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:29:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.150115.23083@pb.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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- In article <1993Jan8.150115.23083@pb.com> hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme) writes:
- >We are currently looking for a decent X-Window Text File Editor
- >with more functionality than xedit. Does anyone know of any
- >X-Window editors that are available on the internet or commercially?
- >It should be easy to use for end-users.
- >
- >Thanks
-
- We use the mxedit editor from John Ousterhout's group at Berkeley. It
- is based on the Tcl/Tk packages and is easy to build/use. It is a
- simple visual editor, but very efficient from the user's perspective
- -- much more so than xedit, which strikes me as a sort of low-grade
- emacs-in-a-window, and which is after all just a XToolkit demo.
- The editor comes with a built in tutorial which is triggered by
- calling it with no file argument. Many necessary features are
- available by menu for the utter novice (like exit, always a challenge
- in a new editor).
-
- It's most unusual user interface feature is the ability to scroll
- the screen from anywhere on it -- you essentially 'grab' the screen
- and move it up or down, which is much nicer than pulling the window
- to the top and finding a scrollbar to move with (there's a scrollbar
- too for those long moves).
-
- It's amazingly customizable and extendable. All the internal
- bindings are available by just pulling up one of the standard menu
- entries, and the programming language for extension is Tcl, which
- is versatile and gradually becoming omnipresent :)
-
- tk2.3.tar.Z can be had by anonymous ftp from sprite.berkeley.edu (in the
- /tcl directory); mxedit is available from barkley.berkeley.edu in
- /tcl/extensions.
-
- --
-
- Gary Shea (shea@cs.ukans.edu)
- Dept of Computer Science
- Lawrence, Kansas
-