List your favorite text editor.

[Thorham]

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 (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?

[Karlos]

An example Frexx script...

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?

[kolla]

So FrexxEd has nothing to do with rexx?
How confusing

Btw - vim

[Thorham]

Is there a standalone interpreter for this?

Yes, there is See the FPL.readme file:

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###############################################################################
 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

[LoadWB]

Ed.  I'm apparently a minimalist and a glutton for punishment.

Thought about Pico and never did anything about it.

[Karlos]

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.

[kolla]

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

[Franko]

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..

[Karlos]

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:

[kolla]

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?

[Franko]

On a slightly related note (not really), anyone remember AnalytiCalc?

I've do, still got it, it's terrible ...

[kolla]

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:

[Karlos]

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

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:

[Franko]

Never used it, but if it's that bad, I'll have to look into it

DON'T... you'll have nightmares... :nervous:

[tlgrooms]

Mine was CED back in the day.  Loved that editor.