Editor for rescue disks/ floppy distros
"Everthing's the same except the name". This is a re-
post, just for change of thread for reasons as below.
Yes, I clean forgot that there are people on our list
who are on threaded mail readers ...... I posted this
on the thread of "Joe editor" yesterday.
Thanks Curt for reminding me.
USM Bish
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:58:31AM -0500, Debian Linux User wrote:
> Thanks for this post. This editor is amazing. With the subject
> line of the thread I just about missed reading it, however. You
> might want to make your recommendation about including it on the
> rescue disks in a separate post.
>
> Best regards,
> Curt Daugaard
> cld@core.com
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:24:16PM +0518, USM Bish wrote:
> >
> > The "joe" editor seems to be rather popular, specially
> > amongst people for whom wordstar keys have got ingrained
> > in their genes.
> >
> > There is another editor called w3, which was introduced
> > to me by some-one on this list. The URL is :
> >
> > http://www.sax.de/~adlibit/e3-0.7.tar.gz [82338 bytes]
> >
> > Have been using it for about 2 weeks now. EXCELLENT !!
> > Just 4912 bytes long binary, written fully in assembly
> > (nasm). Fully GPL (with source code). It is 100% Word
> > Star (non-document) mode clone. Has auto-left align as
> > well (remember TurboPascal 3?).
> >
> > It is definitely not a replacement for emacs / vi, but
> > if wordstar compatibility is what you are looking for,
> > this rivals "joe" any day.
> >
> > If an editor for rescue disks is what is you need,look
> > no further. THIS IS IT. It would be difficult to find
> > a smaller one with all facilites expected of an editor.
> >
> > USM Bish
> >
> >
> > PS: Binary tarball with man (6080 bytes)! Private mail
> > only.
> >
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