On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:01:56 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am watching the list for some time now, but this is the first time I open a > topic. And it turned out to be off-topic... :-)) > > Short version: > > 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. -- Fedora Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1305_FC4 loadavg: 1.60 1.38 1.15
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