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> From: Vilmar KLemt              (49) 02461/61-4391   KPH107   at DJUKFA11
> 
> Using CMS/Xedit daily on a mainframe IBM I am astonished that the
> qualities of the Xedit editor have not been recognized yet in the
> Atari world. Bruce Blanar should be highly praised if he would port
> it to the ST.
> Or can anybody tell me another editor that is as powerful and yet as
> easy to use? Isn't the commandline orientation a very useful alternative
> to other editors?
> Does any other editor support such useful commands as
>    SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY etc.?

Actually many of the micro editors are much easier to use, thanks to a 
much better interplay between user keyboard screen and mouse. You have a
large choice of editors on for instance the Atari. If you don't like a 
window orientation and hate vi or emacs there is still the very powerful
editor STedi which takes much of its user friendliness from the Apollo
editor (and several others), is extremely easy to use and very fast. It 
can do many things your XEDIT cannot do. If you want to know whether other
editors know the commands `SHIFT, ZONE, MERGE, OVERLAY' you better explain
what they do. I have the impression from their names that most decent
editors that can handle several buffers (or windows) have some like it but
under a different name.

Actually the next version of STedi will even be far more powerful as judged
from the beta version. It has full regular expressions and a complete macro
language. If SHIFT is what I think it to be the regular expression
//^/=/ /  (replace begin of line by blank) should do the job
(and so on)

Actually discussing editors is like discussing religion.
Its hard to convince a Jehova witness.

Jos Vermaseren