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Greetings:

I am interested in your recommendations from the net of a good
programmers editor for MS-DOS (386+) class machines.  Specifically I
am interested in either freeware, shareware, or very cheap commercial
products, so that the cost to me (my University) is relatively low.
If it costs much I'll have to get a purchase order etc. - you know how
that goes...

I am not dissatisfied with the editor we I currently use.  In
fact, for shareware I think it's quite nice.  But my editor is several
years old and I'm wondering if there isn't something a little fancier
available.

Here are some properties of interest.

For me, a candidate editor must:

1) Be character based.  
2) Do split screens to edit multiple files 
3) Have some sort of menu bar for functions which can appear/disappear
   as necessary.
4) Have some sort of keybindings I am familiar with (emacs or
   Wordstar)
5) Hopefully have a pop-up help screen for keybindings..


I would like to know if there is a shareware/freeware editor which has
two other functions I find very useful:

1) Support for a mouse so I can select text for cut/paste/delete
   operations.
2) Syntax directed indenting so that when I program the editor is
   aware of the current code and automatically indents to handle (), {},
   ;, and other similar constructs.  This would be similar to emacs's
   C-mode.
3) A relitively robust UNDO facility.


The editor DOES NOT need to have:

1) A fancy macro language.
2) The ability to edit huge files.


We are a university research lab - the editor would only be used for
non-commercial purposes.

If you know of an editor that fits this description which I could
acquire via FTP, or an inexpensive commercial product, please let me 
know.  If I get many responses I'll post a nice summary to the net.

Thanks in advance.

Fraser


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Fraser Street
fraser@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Computer Networks Laboratory