OT: Editor like CygnusEd on Amiga

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Thursday 19 May 2005 08:54, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:01:56 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone give me a recommendation about an editor that is as close as
> > possible (by look, feel and function) to the famous Cygnus Editor from
> > the old Amiga days?
> >
> > If not, tell me where to start if I wish to write my own text editor? Is
> > there a smarter way, or just From Scratch?
>
> Since you've not mentioned whether you've tried all or most of the editors
> listed at http://freshmeat.net here's the obligatory suggestion to browse
> that directory and try as many of the smaller projects as possible. By now
> you should have tried the most popular and/or most bloated editors.
>
> I know Cygnus Editor, too, and for Windows based PCs, the only editor that
> ever offered a similar list of features (e.g. rectangular blocks, multiple
> windows, full screen cursor movement even beyond end of lines, a built-in
> macro language with which to redefine menus/shortcuts/helper functions,
> syntax highlighting, built-in hex dump,...) is MultiEdit:
>
>   http://www.multiedit.com/
>
> For Linux, I've been a user of JED for some time and customised it to use
> a colour scheme and syntax highlighting, which made it look and feel nice
> enough.  I've returned to Emacs after endless problems with UTF-8 in
> JED. In general, I want to edit text, not spend more time editing a text
> editor's configuration. Once tuned a little bit, Emacs just works for me.
>
> Another editor which looked promising when I tried it long ago, is:
>
>   http://freshmeat.net/projects/leeditor/
>
> Seems it's still maintained. There used to be a port to Qt or KDE
> somewhere, which gave graphical menus to it.
>
> > down, a line of text appears. Since I first started using Emacs, one of
> > the main disadvantages I saw was "half-a-page-jump" when I reach the
> > bottom of the screen. I usually get completely lost in text (especially
> > if doing C++... :-)...).
>
> This is customisable in your $HOME/.emacs
>
>   (setq-default scroll-step 1)
>
> just like many other features.

Thanks for the recommendations and advice. I'll try multiedit under vmware.

But then again, I still think that writing another editor would be the best 
solution. Only if I can find some spare time to do it... :-)

Best regards,
Marko