🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan22.161928.20040@Princeton.EDU>, bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
|> In article <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown ) writes:
|> >Im looking for an editor which will ......
  [ bunch of deletions ]
|> 
|> When I was a DOS user, I liked Kedit, from the Mansfield Software Group. 
|> It has very nice column editing features and outputs ASCII.  The latest
|> version, 5.0, works in DOS or OS2 and uses extended memory.  (I don't
|> have this version.)  They are working on a Windows version.  You can set
|> record type to fixed, with a specified record length in order to pad
|> records with blanks.  A global change would change all blanks to 0.
|> 
  [ more deletions ]
|> 
|> I call them every so often and ask if they have plans to develop a Unix
|> version, but so far the answer is "No".  None of the Unix editors I've
|> seen has the column editing power of Kedit; it's ideal for working with
|> data and also for turning ugly output into something close to printable,
|> so that TeX or a word-processor can easily handle the rest.  
|> 
|> Barbara Vaughan
|> 

  And of course, for those who might not be aware, Kedit is based
*extensively* on the IBM SP editor Xedit for VM/CMS.  Xedit is a line-
based (like Kedit) editor with extensive integrations with IBM's REXX
programming language.  Much as I like unix, emacs and even vi ;-), I've
got to admit that IBM scored some mighty impressive points with that
editor.

Regards,
Dave
--
Dave Arndt
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville OR
davea@wv.mentorg.com