Suggestions wanted: A good programmers editor!

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3 total messages Started by Fraser Street Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:14

#7514

Author: Fraser Street
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:14

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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

Re: Suggestions wanted: A good programmers editor!

#7600

Author: Tim Triemstra
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:13

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In <1993Jan7.221425.23792@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, fs8j@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Fraser Street)  wrote:
   >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..
   >
   >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.

Welp, I've used 2 different DOS editors on a regular basis.  I don't recall
seeing a recommended operating system.  But, Bingo3.0 and Qedit 2.1 are both
very good for DOS.  They both accomplish most of the requirements, except
qedit doesn't have a comprehensive mouse feature.  It allows you to move
the cursor with the mouse, but no highlighting.

They both have a C-Mode as well and keybinding setups for multiple editors/
wordprocessors like emacs and wordstar.

Tim.

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Re: Suggestions wanted: A good programmers editor!

#7614

Author: Christopher Schanck
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:44

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In article <765352d6937177t3@roofus.ann-arbor.mi.us> "Tim Triemstra" <empath@ais.org> writes:
>Welp, I've used 2 different DOS editors on a regular basis.  I don't recall
>seeing a recommended operating system.  But, Bingo3.0 and Qedit 2.1 are both
>very good for DOS.  They both accomplish most of the requirements, except
>qedit doesn't have a comprehensive mouse feature.  It allows you to move
>the cursor with the mouse, but no highlighting.
>
>They both have a C-Mode as well and keybinding setups for multiple editors/
>wordprocessors like emacs and wordstar.

Just to keep everyone informed, the next version of Bingo, v3.10, due
out in 2-3 months, will feature 2048-level undo,
text-recognition/template expansion, and a hypertext help system.


C.R.S. Schanck
70541.3614@compuserve.com

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