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Article #1318Re: newbie question re text editors
From: Harry Plate
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:18
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:18
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>> Hi. I'd like to use a text editor with CodeWarrior (6.0) that allows me >> to keep my hands on the keyboard (much like my beloved gnu emacs for >> Unix). This means extensive cursor control and text selection options >> with customizable key bindings. I've looked at the CW editor that's >> part of the IDE and also BBEdit but their commands are limited and/or >> customization is limited. The emacs ports to the Mac aren't tightly >> integrated with the IDE (another requirement). Anyone have a >> satisfactory solution for a keyboard-only configurable editor that's >> tightly integrated with the IDE? >> Boy, am I with you! I dearly miss my gnu environment :-( > > Jon Guyer will probably show up on this thread with the same suggestionl > (especially now that I've invoked his name). You might want to look into > Alpha <http://alpha.olm.net/>, it even has an emacs mode. > I chk'd out 'alpha' some time ago, and turned away w/o trying it for the following reasons: 1) tcl based; could NOT port my old lisp functions 2) tcl based; every thing that I've had experience with that was based on tcl was very difficult to keep running; update a library, and everything breaks; TOO MUCH hacking going on there for me. I've been wrong before ... Maybe you could convince me that it is worth trying! - harry
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