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Title: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Jose on August 31, 2004, 09:24:02 PM
Pretty much that.
I need another one cause I currently using the Memacs version supplied with AmigaOS 3.1 :lol:

It's gonna be used to write progs.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: TheMagicM on August 31, 2004, 09:24:34 PM
cygnus ed
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: on August 31, 2004, 09:27:26 PM
TurboText
 :-D
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: mrsad on August 31, 2004, 09:43:16 PM
perhaps vim is a good editor to use for programming.
it is now used on about every possible platform but it was original a piece of amiga software!
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: odin on August 31, 2004, 09:48:46 PM
I used to use ANN (annotate), then used the micro/lite version of GED for a bit and now I'm back to good old ED :-).

-edit-
Woops, I wrote CED but I ment G(old)ED :-).
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Jose on August 31, 2004, 09:56:29 PM
Both CygnusEd and Turbotext have a very high reputation from what I gather but they're shareware and not available...

ED...must admit I never tried it 8-)
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: odin on August 31, 2004, 10:00:21 PM
The micro/lite/whatever version of GED is only 5EUR.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: The_Power_of_the_Ginger on August 31, 2004, 10:00:23 PM
Not Workbench Ed surely?

I like EditPad myself.

There was a decent one available, but can I for the life of me remember what it was called? No. CygnusEd is the one real alternative. Came on an Aminet Set Cd, if I recall. Number...8. Or 7. Or 9.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Jose on August 31, 2004, 10:03:24 PM
@The power of the Ginger

"...Came on an Aminet Set Cd..."

The full version?
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: itix on August 31, 2004, 10:07:30 PM
Blacks Editor
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: fraborg on August 31, 2004, 10:13:21 PM
GoldED AIX!
Try it if you like a features packed editor. Maybe someday it will turn also in a complete IDE.
Now it exists also in a cut-down version for you ED fans!  :-D
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: weirdami on August 31, 2004, 10:35:49 PM
I like Pico, but I don't know if it's on Amiga. Maybe on a UNIX/LINUX capable Amiga maybe.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: blobrana on August 31, 2004, 11:02:46 PM
Hum,
i have the textviewer Evenmore 0.62 on my machine.

and use editpad, just for quick notes and editing webpages.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: SHADES on August 31, 2004, 11:02:50 PM
I liked TexEd mind you it won't run on anything over 020. Seems to have some cache bug code that chokes on the 040.
But I loved it because it could edit binary, search features and basic formatting and it was small!!

Oh yeah, and had no problems with LARGE files.
I used to hack Demos with it actually lol and other things. Shhhh it was just fun, never sold any of it and I learnt quite a bit.
Least I'm honest saying it.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: adolescent on August 31, 2004, 11:23:04 PM
CED.  I use VIM on Win/Linux or EditPlus (I think that's the name) when I have to open veeeeeery large logfiles on Win.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: shaf on September 01, 2004, 12:44:24 AM
My All time Favoiurite is Cygnus ED.

I started with TXed and Then went with TurboText but finished with CED.

Who Supports CED now, my Licensed Version 3.5 was from ASDG, Is there an upgrade?

Cheers

Shaf
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Jose on September 01, 2004, 12:47:05 AM
Funny that there are som many different opinions.

Maybe I wouldn't mind spending on it if it's cheap, where can one get Turbotext or Cygnus ED these days?
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: shaf on September 01, 2004, 06:38:34 PM
Jose,

TurboText has been released to the public by the author Martin Talin creator of Faery Tale Adventure, Music X , TurboText and others.

Someone here had a url to it on their site.

Cheers

Shaf
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: x56h34 on September 01, 2004, 06:44:21 PM
EditPad rules for a quick edit. It's perfect for quick modifications of user-startup or startup-sequence files, especially if you are booting up from the emergency disk and need a reliable way of manipulating the mentioned files.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: redrumloa on September 01, 2004, 06:47:02 PM
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What text editor is the best in your oppinon?


MorhphED hands down.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: mjohnson on September 01, 2004, 07:27:12 PM
@Jose

I used EdWord on the classic. Oh, how I loved that editor. It came with a personality, you know? ;-)

It did have the odd bug or two even in the final version, and development stopped a few years ago, unfortunately.
(Though I live by the old saying "save often, save early," so it worked okay for me anyway)


When I got my A1 a year ago, I was stuck with KEdit (KDE/Linux) for a bit more than half a year, for obvious reasons. It did get the job done, but wasn't capable of doing much more than what I absolutely required of it. (I.e. push key, have letter appear on screen.) Though I wasn't much of a fan of the other offerings available either, so I stuck with it for the time being.


Once I started running OS4 I quickly realized that I would need something a bit fresher, and started looking around for an alternative, I quickly came across Micro GoldEd, which is a really decent utility well worth the few pennies it costs to register.

Though do note that I'm not a developer, I just use it for simple text editing, and for that it's really excellent. Highly configurable, and starts behaving just like you want it to after an hour or two of customizing the keyboard layout and the other settings.

It's a 68k application, so it should run very well on all Amiga systems. At least it works here under OS4-pre, and it apparently works very nicely on MOS as well from what I hear.

For developers, the full version seems to offer quite a bit more useful stuff, something that I as a mere "push key - have letter appear on screen" type of user have no real need for. ;-)

I do believe that both versions are available as trial downloads on the author's site though, here (http://projects.dietmar-eilert.de/).


I don't know if they're "the best," but the Micro version sure as heck works like a charm for me, so I don't see any need to spend loads of time looking for other alternatives. It's in the very least very good.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Gojirax on September 01, 2004, 07:58:53 PM
BBEdit was my fave back in the day, but it looks like they only develop for the Mac now.

If you could find a copy of BBEdit for the Amiga though, you'd like it.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: SilvrDrgn on September 01, 2004, 08:18:11 PM
Easy - GoldEd Studio AIX.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Hyperspeed on September 01, 2004, 09:49:31 PM
I once used EdWord and thought it was pretty good. Now I'm quite happy
with a MUI text prog called pEditor_1.0a.

I heard the author of GoldEd was prosecuted once upon a time because
an earlier version formatted your RDB if it detected you were using a
pirate keyfile.

Anyone else hear this?
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: on September 01, 2004, 09:53:42 PM
Jose wrote:
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Maybe I wouldn't mind spending on it if it's cheap, where can one get Turbotext or Cygnus ED these days?

TurboText is included in the AmigaForever package.
 :-D
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Piru on September 01, 2004, 10:49:34 PM
CygnusEd
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: bigdan on September 01, 2004, 11:02:26 PM

CygnusEd 4.22 PPC (MorphOs)

I used it since years (with lot of ARexx scripts) on my amiga "classic" too...

Otherwise GED AIX (aka MorphEd on Mos) seems a very good text editor !
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Jose on September 05, 2004, 12:34:41 AM
Ok, I found the latest TurboText HERE (http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/turbotext/) if anyone cares.
Haven't tried it yet, I installed EdWord meanwhile, but I will have to try it after having heard good about it for so long...
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: JonoPike on September 05, 2004, 12:49:23 AM
Thanks Jose!
I think TurboText is the best txt-editor
all time! I don't like the **** GoldEd or
**** CygnusEd. Crappy s**t!
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: that_punk_guy on September 05, 2004, 12:55:25 AM
FrexxEd is closest to my heart. :-)

I never programmed much with it but I do remember it was brilliant for editing large AmigaGuides.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Merc on September 05, 2004, 01:38:49 AM
I always used a nice little editor called "Edt"...  It's lightweight, does all the normal stuff, and seemed to be a proper Amiga program that used all standard requesters, key shortcuts, etc., which I remember having a hard time finding.

GoldEd was pretty good too, but I found it too slow loading ISTR.  EdWord was a close second but I remember not liking something about the way you had to copy & paste text..  I'm very picky about editors I guess... makes me wonder how I can stand to use vi all the time at work  :-D
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Waccoon on September 05, 2004, 01:39:35 AM
It's amazing how many text editors suck.  My favorite is EditPlus2 (http://www.EditPlus.com), but it's only available for Windows.

Don't be fooled by its simplicity.  It absolutely rocks (or it would, if it could parse PHP Here Documents syntax.  That's about the only feature request I have for it!)
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Dietmar on November 14, 2004, 01:54:35 AM
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GoldEd was pretty good too, but I found it too slowloading ISTR


If you don't have requirements beyond normal editing (but want folding, undo, macro recording and high configurability), try microgolded (http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de/golded/files.htm). It starts in half a second on my UAE setup and instantly on MorphOS.

GoldED, which starts in a second, can be made to start instantly with the "Editor Resident?" menu: it will remain loaded/windowless after closing the last text. If you type "golded:ed ", the resident editor will become active again instantly. You can also activate it with the hotkey. It can be pre-loaded (without window) in s:user-startup. Another way to reduce startup time is to activate the image cache.

Btw, what does ISTR mean (probably not International Society for Third-Sector Research)?
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: TheMagicM on November 14, 2004, 02:23:21 AM
Another vote for CygnusEd.
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Karlos on November 14, 2004, 02:37:06 AM
Isn't anybody going to vote for SYS:C/edit?

Shame on you all :lol:

(actually it is pretty nifty once you figure out how to write macros for it....)
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Brian on November 14, 2004, 08:31:48 AM
CygnusEd all the way... apart from it not handling graphiccard modes all that well in some versions and the fact that it can "only" take 4000 letters a line (should be enough for most though) it's the best thing out there. I've even edited binary files with it. :)
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Dietmar on November 14, 2004, 12:00:49 PM
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I heard the author of GoldEd was prosecuted once upon a time because an earlier version formatted your RDB if it detected you were using a pirate keyfile.


I heard the author of GoldED once went back through time after he found out that his custom rendering code was faster than the speed of light. Kids, this is an important message from Dietmar: Don't drink Alcohol ;) A note for software pirates: it's perferctly safe to steal GoldED, any version. No malicious code contained. But you know in your big, good hearts that stealing software is bad, don't you?
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Dan on November 14, 2004, 12:30:27 PM
Janoeditor or if I am at an unix pico/nano.
Remmeber that beta version of janoeditor where you could make it the WB-background?8-)
Title: Re: What text editor is the best in your oppinon?
Post by: Nestor on November 14, 2004, 03:05:41 PM
AZ text editor works for me