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In article <1993Jan8.150115.23083@pb.com> hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme) writes:
>We are currently looking for a decent X-Window Text File Editor
>with more functionality than xedit.  Does anyone know of any
>X-Window editors that are available on the internet or commercially?
>It should be easy to use for end-users.
>
>Thanks

We use the mxedit editor from John Ousterhout's group at Berkeley.  It
is based on the Tcl/Tk packages and is easy to build/use.  It is a
simple visual editor, but very efficient from the user's perspective
-- much more so than xedit, which strikes me as a sort of low-grade
emacs-in-a-window, and which is after all just a XToolkit demo.
The editor comes with a built in tutorial which is triggered by
calling it with no file argument.  Many necessary features are
available by menu for the utter novice (like exit, always a challenge
in a new editor).

It's most unusual user interface feature is the ability to scroll
the screen from anywhere on it -- you essentially 'grab' the screen
and move it up or down, which is much nicer than pulling the window
to the top and finding a scrollbar to move with (there's a scrollbar
too for those long moves).

It's amazingly customizable and extendable.  All the internal
bindings are available by just pulling up one of the standard menu
entries, and the programming language for extension is Tcl, which
is versatile and gradually becoming omnipresent :)

tk2.3.tar.Z can be had by anonymous ftp from sprite.berkeley.edu (in the
/tcl directory); mxedit is available from barkley.berkeley.edu in
/tcl/extensions.

-- 

Gary Shea (shea@cs.ukans.edu)
Dept of Computer Science
Lawrence, Kansas