"Alpha is a very powerful, multi-purpose editor that allows any program - or user-defined function to be bound to any keystroke, or placed into user-defined menus. Every menu is defined in the macro language Tcl by one of the startup files ("alphaBits.tcl" or one of the files sourced from inside it)."
AUTHOR:
Peter Keleher
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1990 - 1996 Peter Keleher
TYPE:
Shareware: US $30
INTERNET SITES:
Original site :
ftp://cs.umd.edu/pub/faculty/keleher/Alpha/
Other sites :
Info-Mac
BBEdit Lite
VERSION - UPDATE: 3.5.1 (01-02-96)
README:
"BBEdit Lite is a freeware derivative of BBEdit 3.1, the popular and critically acclaimed text editor for programmers, on-line-service users, and anyone else who needs to edit plain-text files."
"As of BBEdit Lite 3.5.1, the following reported problems have been fixed:
- Page numbers are now printed correctly, i.e. "Page M of N", instead of "MN".
- Some character spacing anomalies when printing in Monaco on laser printers have been worked around. Monaco remains a problematic font, however - we recommend the use of Courier or ProFont.
- A bug which prevented the opening of 'PICT' files has been corrected.
- When bringing up the "Find..." dialog for the first time in a session, the popup area next to the "File Type" prompt would be blank. It now correctly displays "All Available".
- The diamonds in the Windows menu are now properly updated each time you pull down the Windows menu.
- The items on the Edit menu are now correctly enabled when a dialog box is being displayed.
- The items in the Windows menu are now properly updated after performing a "Save As" operation."
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
--> Tom Christiansen
1. Emacs
EMACS = Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
VERSION - UPDATE:
GNU Emacs v. 18.59 Macintosh Port v. 1.17 (05-17-95)
README:
"Emacs can read and edit Macintosh formatted text files, Unix formatted text files, and MSDOS formatted text files. Emacs can also be used to edit binary files."
AUTHOR:
mac port:
Marc Parmet
COPYRIGHT:
Portions (c) 1985 - 1992 The Free Software Foundation
Portions (c) 1993 - 1995 Marc Parmet
TYPE:
Freeware
INTERNET SITES:
Original site:
ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/parmet/
Other sites:
ftp://ftp.switch.ch/software/mac/emacs/
2. JOVE
The lightning of mighty Jove is fearful.
--> Homer, Iliad XIV 417
MacJove
VERSION - UPDATE: 4.12 (03-14-89)
README:
"MacJove is a direct port of Jove to the Macintosh, with the overall structure, commands and key bindings left intact. In addition, elements of the Macintosh user interface - menus, window controls, and the mouse, have been integrated in a manner consistent with the overall functioning of Jove."
AUTHOR:
Unix:
Jonathan Payne
mac port:
Ken Mitchum
COPYRIGHT:
(C) 1986, 1987, 1988 by Jonathan Payne, K. Gegenfurtner, K. Mitchum
"This is an alpha distribution of MicroEmacs 3.10 as ported to the
Macintosh Operating System.
The Macintosh version of MicroEmacs has several features which make it different from versions for other systems, because of the nature of the Macintosh User Interface and Operating System."