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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Thorham on September 27, 2010, 10:05:13 PM
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List your favorite text editor for Classic Amigas (emulation is fine, too) here. I want to know what everyone is using, and why :)
Mine is FrexxEd (http://daniel.haxx.se/frexxed/) (free, open source). Powerful right out of the box, and insanely configurable through it's script language FPL which is 99% C (if you know C, then you know FPL). If some feature you need or want is missing, just write it yourself in FPL. The possibilities are almost endless.
So, what about you guys?
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An example Frexx script (http://daniel.haxx.se/frexxed/ftp/fpl/AsmMode.FPL)...
OMG, when you said it was basically C, you weren't kidding. It's a thing of beauty! Is there a standalone interpreter for this?
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So FrexxEd has nothing to do with rexx?
How confusing :)
Btw - vim
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Is there a standalone interpreter for this?
Yes, there is :) See the FPL.readme file:
###############################################################################
This program uses Frexx Programming Language (fpl.library/fpl.DLL/fpllib.a)!
###############################################################################
Frexx Programming Language, FPL, is a shared library interpreting language
copyright (C) 1992-1996 by FrexxWare. FPL is Freeware and freely distributable
for non-commercial purposes only, including extensive documentation and source
code. Use within commercial products must be done with written permission from
the author.
FPL is entirely isolated from the rest of the software. FPL is only the
programming language and nothing else. FPL is OS independent. It can (and will)
be used under other Operating Systems than this.
For more information about FPL, fpl.library (Amiga shared library), fpl.DLL
(OS/2 dynamically linked library), fpllib.a (UNIX System V shared library),
other FPL versions, porting issues, bug reports, enhancement requests or
anything else regarding this subject, don't hesitate to get in touch with the
author.
Author:
Daniel Stenberg
Ankdammsgatan 36, 4tr
S-171 43 SOLNA
FidoNet 2:201/328
email: Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se
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Ed. I'm apparently a minimalist and a glutton for punishment.
Thought about Pico and never did anything about it.
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So FrexxEd has nothing to do with rexx?
How confusing :)
Maybe, but that surely looks the scripting language syntax I always imagined I'd end up writing myself one day :) Basically, because it's C. Albeit with some nice datatypes not routinely found in C.
Btw - vim
Yep, vim was an amiga application, aiming to improve vi. Surprising how many linux people I know on that side of the vim/emacs divide that are unaware of this.
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Ed. I'm apparently a minimalist and a glutton for punishment.
On Amiga I also use Ed alot, it's one the gripes I have with MorphOS, that I need KingCon around to have Ed working properly :p
I'm also one of the very few (I think) that do anything with c:edit :)
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Just out of sheer habit from using the thing every day, DEVPAC... :)
I use it for everything from making doc files to rough drafts of letters, just became second nature to me over the years to use the thing for any simple ascii text.. :)
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I'm also one of the very few (I think) that do anything with c:edit :)
I used it in a few scripts, rather like you'd use sed these days.
I remember one script that had to do a large number of different search/replace operations that I ended up running through several instances of edit via PIPEs and lots of dubious run >NIL: type stuff.
I have no idea what specifically I used it for, though :lol:
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Yep, vim was an amiga application, aiming to improve vi. Surprising how many linux people I know on that side of the vim/emacs divide that are unaware of this.
I remember trying it first time from Fish disk 591 back in 1994 :)
Here it is http://ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/501-600/ff591/ :lol:
On a slightly related note (not really), anyone remember AnalytiCalc?
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On a slightly related note (not really), anyone remember AnalytiCalc?
I've do, still got it, it's terrible ... :(
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I've do, still got it, it's terrible ... :(
I remember trying to wrap my head around how it was supposed to work, but giving up :roflmao:
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I remember trying to wrap my head around how it was supposed to work, but giving up :roflmao:
Never used it, but if it's that bad, I'll have to look into it :D
http://fi.aminet.net/biz/misc/AnalytiCalc.readme (http://fi.aminet.net/biz/misc/AnalytiCalc.readme)
The AnalytiCalc spreadsheet, directly executable. This version features operation with only one window, many "3 dimensional" sheet addressing primitives, and optional execution from icons. Two images are furnished,
one for smaller and one for large internal storage (though both have software virtual memory if needed). These images operate OK under AmigaDos 1.2, 1.3, and 2.0. They include code allowing the spreadsheet to be
treated as a series of "pages" so that a cell has a row, column, and (optionally) page, and ranges can be in depth along pages as well as along rows or columns. The mapping is flexible enough so that it can be used to facilitate computing traces of matrices if desired, as well as for more conventional use.
Wow, what could be simpler? :lol:
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Never used it, but if it's that bad, I'll have to look into it :D
DON'T... you'll have nightmares... :nervous:
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Mine was CED back in the day. Loved that editor.
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Mine was CED back in the day. Loved that editor.
Ted was funny in the Blitz Basic IDE. I seem to recall it having some amusing macros.
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List your favorite text editor for Classic Amigas (emulation is fine, too) here. I want to know what everyone is using, and why :)
I've used XDME for many years.
http://aminet.net/text/edit/XDME_1.84_bin.lha
http://aminet.net/text/edit/XES.lha
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MEmacs, 'cause it came with the 1.3 Extras disk. :)
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ED cause TEX was overkill for most tasks.
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AZ, the most retro looking text editor.
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CygnusEd all the way. There is nothing better :)
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CygnusEd all the way. There is nothing better :)
On AmigaOS4 I use CynusEd exclusively. On Windows I use a tiny editor that I wrote myself in Hollywood so it runs on Amiga too.
I prefer vi over emacs and like OED from A+L´s Amiga Oberon. I use a lot of editors and tend to use the shortcuts from the wrong one - causing maximum trouble.
For example CTRL-XS in VisualSlickEdit will kill the line the cursor is in and save.(Emacs will just save)
CMD-W will save in CygnusEd, but will close windows on all Mac software.
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Another vote for MicroEmacs! Because it was free, fast even on a stock 68000, fit on your workbench floppy (no HD) and a ''tab' really was a '\t'...
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CygnusEd all the way. There is nothing better :)
Well... CygnusEd can be improved. I just finished the long overdue update #2 to CygnusEd Professional 5. I hope it will become available by next weekend :)
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Notepad.
*hides*
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Ced
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I've used CED a lot, but nowdays my favourite editor on the miggy is Annotate (http://www.onyxsoft.se/annotate.html) ;)
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One editor to rule them all, the NiceEditor (ne):
http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/
Like vim, started out on the Amiga, now can run on about anything, and on everything I use. The iMac I'm on right now, the SGI, all linux flavors. The neat thing about it on the Amiga is you can log in over the serial port or telnet in and still have a 'graphical' gui, although character graphics :) The only editor I found that I can sit at the SGI and edit remotely on the Amiga while having working drop down menus.
It's inspired by TurboText, which is my number two pick. But ne has undo. I use ne for the things others use vi(m) and emacs for, and I find it a LOT less painful.
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Yes, there is :) See the FPL.readme file:
In addition to those, I've done an AROS port.
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Mine is FrexxEd (http://daniel.haxx.se/frexxed/) (free, open source). Powerful right out of the box, and insanely configurable through it's script language FPL which is 99% C (if you know C, then you know FPL). If some feature you need or want is missing, just write it yourself in FPL. The possibilities are almost endless.
FrexxEd here too... I'm working on an AROS port. Actually, I spent weeks improving the AROS console.device/handler because it infuriated me when I started working on the AROS port of FrexxEd... :) The changes I made for AROS should almost all make it easier to port to OS4 too (though I hear the 68k version runs fine on OS4).
After that I plan on starting to add a few new features, update the look slightly etc...
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So FrexxEd has nothing to do with rexx?
Not in terms of the built in scripting language, but almost all functionality in FrexxEd is also accessible via ARexx.
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Mostly Black's Editor here.
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If I remember correctly the history is like this: MEmacs->CED->GED. If needed some hacking in Ed if I need to boot without startup-sequence.
Work related on UNIX something like this: emacs->XCoral->jed->Nedit->emacs.
greets,
Staf.
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TuiTED, anyone?
(http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/TuiTED.lha)
(and hopefully soon "NTuiTED"...)
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On my A2000HD system, I used Ed for basic text editor and the Write program from the Amiga Appetizer suite and Final Writer for word processing.
On my PPC system, I use NotePad for basic text editor and Final Writer 97 for word processing.
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redfox
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On a slightly related note (not really), anyone remember AnalytiCalc?
I had completely forgotten analyticalc. It was a spreadsheet in FORTRAN ported from
who-knows-where in the first year or so of the Amiga, right? I could never get it to
do ANYTHING on my A1000 (probably under 1.2). Crash, crash, crash.
I met the guy who ported it at an Amiga show. Seemed like a fine fellow.
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Gee, Idono.
I presently use Cubic (GoldED). It does everything I need, but sometimes certain
features of the UI (mostly in C mode) bother me. Of course, I've done very little
to customize it.
I've used Memacs, AME (with DICE C I think) and several GNU emacs versions. I
was finally feeling at home with emacs when a horrendous bug bit me (can't re-
member what it was, or what version). Quill was acceptable, but a little harder on
the eyes. I've used the Lattice C editor, Notepad, ed and edit, too, but not lately.
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I like GoldED
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I used to use a programme called MegaEd on my A500+, really liked it, though it did crash a bit too often, I seem to remember.
http://ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/701-800/ff743/MegaEd.lha
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Hi! I'm thinking to buy cubic ide. How does it run under winuae? I would like to use it to write some code.
How do you thinik it is as editor? And as code editor?
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Programmer's Notepad on Windows and GEdit or Nano on Linux. Haven't found a favorite on the Amiga yet.
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vim, on Amiga, Linux, and any other platform I can use it.
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must admit I dont use it enough to really look for a replacement, so on the miggy I just use ed for quick editing of configuration stuff.
Final writer for bigger stuff's
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Notepad.
*hides*
Notepad 2
*crawls back under rock*
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Notepad 2
*crawls back under rock*
Lately its been notepad++ on win side (or Eclipse),
Memacs and cygnusEd and Ed on the miggy side.
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Notepad++ on Windows
Annotate on my SAM. I'd buy CygnusED in a heartbeat if I could purchase it digitally (pay and use immediately, I dislike snail mail, lol).
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So, let me ask a stupid question, What editor on the Amiga has friggin line numbers on the left-hand column?
All I want is some line numbers, so I can find the error, you know.
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memacs, 'cause it came with the 1.3 extras disk. :)
+1 :)
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Hi! I'm thinking to buy cubic ide. How does it run under winuae? I would like to use it to write some code.
How do you thinik it is as editor? And as code editor?
If you run UAE in RTG-Mode on a 10 years or younger PC you can turn on all features and you use it full syntax-highlighting. It has all you need for basic to medium Amiga-programming with an emphasis on C(++) which will run out of the box.
Jumping to errors, full syntax-highligting for all names defined in the (provided) Amiga-SDK, jumping to the definition/documentation of all those defines automated makefiles and and and....
Worth every penny,cent or zloty.
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CED has line numbers
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GoldED, accept no substitute.