68K Professional Text Editor

[trekiej]

What are the best text editors for Amiga 68K?
Thanks.

[Acill]

What are the best text editors for Amiga 68K?
Thanks.

Cygnus Editor also known as CED, and GoldED are by far the best I've used. I think GoldED is now known as Cubic IDE.

[trekiej]

Cool, thanks.

[guest11527]

What are the best text editors for Amiga 68K?
Thanks.

Depending on your personal preference, I would either recommend GoldEd, or Cygnus Ed. I personally prefer the former, especially the Version 3 you'll get in the Aminet. Later versions somehow broke havoc with the look & feel of the Amiga GUI and hence didn't integrate that well into the system.

CED is also a nice editor, though I have to admit that I never really got used to its somehow non-canonical clipboard handling and text highlighting. I would have preferred if it would have followed the Amiga User Interface Style guide. Hence, it's not of much use here - development is GED based.

[trekiej]

Thanks.
Page Stream is something else I would not mind looking into using.
Final Writer is also another that I have heard was being worked on with improvements.

[guest11527]

Thanks.
Page Stream is something else I would not mind looking into using.
Final Writer is also another that I have heard was being worked on with improvements.

Are you looking into a text editor for programming (that would be GED or CED), or a word processor for writing letters?

For the latter, there are a couple of old systems (WordPerfect wasn't bad, for Os 1.3), or not quite as old (WordWorth was quite ok). Then there are DPK programs that could do an entire page layout, with text flow between boxes. That's pagestream. It's more for the layout of a magazine or a newspaper than for writing a letter. For the latter, Pagestream is complete overshooting.

[Acill]

If its just letter writing you can also look for Kindwords. I  used that all through Junior High and High School! I loved it. I use final writer now for this though.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Your post is confusing.  Might want to specify whether you're looking for a text editor (Ed, Cygnus Ed, etc. - used for entering code, editing your Startup-Sequence, etc.), a word processing program (KindWords, Final Writer, Amiga Writer, etc., used for general document creation), or a desktop publishing program (PageStream, etc.).  Oh well, plenty of options out there, in all cases.  Good luck!  

[paolone]

Text editor for Amiga? C1-Text/Personal Write from Cloanto. There was absolutely nothing better in that field, with one of the smartest mistake seek routine I've ever seen in 30 years of writing.

[trekiej]

What would you recommend for writing a book?
Could Page Stream make an online magazine?
If I down loaded a Commodore Free txt file what could one use to turn it into an Amiga Guide file?
edit:
What would be good software to write Interactive Fiction for Amiga 1000 and up?
I would like to have a split screen at top and text at bottom.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

What would you recommend for writing a book?
Could Page Stream make an online magazine?

Amiga Writer, or Final Writer, or something of the like.  There's been some recent developments in that department, you might check on this thread, and those of the like:  http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69443


AFAIK PageStream can't export HTML, so it's not going to work for making an "online magazine".  But newer versions are supposed to be able to export PDF, so it could work that way.

[trekiej]

Is it worth putting Amiga OS 4.1 FE on a laptop to run a Text Editor or Desktop Publishing app? I have a laptop on lay-away and it has Win 7 64 bit. It is at least a dual core.

[guest11527]

What would you recommend for writing a book?

Take a PC, use emacs, write in LaTeX. The learning curve is steep, but you get a high-quality layout. For anything larger than an article, "Word" - or leave alone AmiWrite or WordWorth is not exactly suitable.

 PasTex on Amiga and an editor like ged might do, but typesetting the book will probably take too long and might be unpractical. AmiWrite and WordWorth are ok for a letter, or something up to 30-50 pages, but beyond that it will get too slow, and have stability problems. I stopped experimenting with these programs a long time ago, switched to LaTeX and never looked back.

Could Page Stream make an online magazine?

Well, it's not exactly an html editor.

If I down loaded a Commodore Free txt file what could one use to turn it into an Amiga Guide file?

A strange question to ask. Take a text editor and insert the links and markups. Then it becomes an AmigaGuide file, but it's not automatic. In the same sense, you can "of course" turn a text file into a web page, you "only" need to insert the html tags. Depending on what you expect as a result, this might be an easy going or an annoyance.

What would be good software to write Interactive Fiction for Amiga 1000 and up?
I would like to have a split screen at top and text at bottom.

Nothing I would know of. There are a couple of professional development systems for the PC that you may use for free if you generate freeware. I do not know whether anyhting like that ever made it to the Amiga.

[dovegrace]

I used Pagestream for a number of years to create "offline" magazines, and once to perpetrate a hoax.  I don't remember it having the ability to create "online" magazines.

For WYSIWIG HTML editing I used to use Metalweb, which I don't recommend unless you're stubborn, desperate, or very patient. I found it easier to use EditPad to create/edit pages manually.

[trekiej]

Thanks to all who replied.