William Chops Westfield <billw@CISCO.COM> writes:

> Well, as long as we're talking about editors, I'll recomend "EMACS" and
> the varients thereof.  It used to be that the big advantage of emacs was
> that it was available for everything - Tops10, tops20, unix, VMS, CPM,
> MSDOS, HP150, MAC, and so on.  No having "keyboard stutter" as you moved
> from system to system.  Nowdays, evolution has done away with most of
> those systems, although I suppose it is still relatively rare to find
> an editor that runs on both unix and windows.  The "grandpappy" GNU
> EMACS comes with billions of modes and special language support.  It and
> most of the popular subset implementations are user-extensible using a
> lisp-like language.
>
> The things I find most useful (aside from the programmability) include
> keyboard macros and multi-file support in the form of "tags" (type a
> function name and pop over to the file and location of that function),
> and the automatic indentation/etc for language support...
>
> EMACS was like THE original freeware product.  It and most of its clones
> are freeware, and most are available with full source code.
>
> BillW
>

        Well, your story is jaded, but..  FTE was one that I thought of because
it was of a linux birth, and was what I used under os/2.  I figured that it was
probably alive in DOS and win32 forms, and guessed right.
--
Matthias Granberry
Gonff@windmillbbs.com
Caffeine, nicotine, and execution all serve as "normalizing agents".
   -- "Attention Deficit Disorder"