Re: Text editors: can't teach an old pigeon new tricks

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:26:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
   > 
   > I want the editor primarily for programming, and I have done a lot of
   > programming in environments like Borland Turbo C for DOS and the HTDC C
   > compiler for PIC microcontrollers, also for DOS.
   > 
   > These editors provide, AT THE SAME TIME, Wordstar-like control-key
   > commands AND alt-key-activated pulldown menus like those provided in
   > DOS's EDIT. There is, of course, some duplication of functionality here.
   > Personally I find it convenient.
   > 
   > I have pored through the text editors provided on my Debian CD and can't
   > find anything that bears more than the vaguest resemblance to this
   > model, although it seems that it may be possible to customise most of
   > them, with a lot of pain and grief. jed seems the least painful so far.
   > 
   > I think it would be a lot easier to install something that already works
   > the way I want it to, so that I can get on with writing number-crunching
   > software. The important features are:
   > 
   > - TEXT BASED (and compatible with SVGATextMode)
   > - Accepts Wordstar-style commands, and
   > - AT THE SAME TIME has DOS-EDIT-style pulldown menus
   > - Ability to call one's own shellscripts by adding entries to the
   > pulldown menus
   > 
   > Does it exist?
   > 
I think so. Get setedit. You would not notice the difference between
TC/TP editor and setedit.
   
Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.

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