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
