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Offline HardboyTopic starter

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Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« on: October 24, 2002, 10:26:38 AM »
So, what is your favorite text-editor?

In some time, I´ve tried to find a good text-editor for the amiga, but it seems like a hard task. The reason I´m doing it, is that a want a good text-editor for programming. I´ve been used to use the asm-one integrated editor for assembly-programming, and cygnus-ed, for other text-editing. The problem now is, that the asm-one editor is no use for c-programming, and cygnus-ed, won´t work correctly with CyberGFX. So now what? What good editors are there? I´ve tried GoldED, but I dislike the insertion of spaces instead of tabs.

So please tell me, as I said I like editors like cygnus-ed, but also Ultra-Edit on the PC, and Nedit on Linux. Any Amiga-alternatives out there?
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2002, 10:29:33 AM »
A lot of people swear by GoldEd, which surely must be the most fully featured editor on the Amiga.

Personally, I reckon you can't beat the original (before a different author took over) version of Blacks Editor (the updates became unstable :-( ).

Why? Because:

* Its super fast! It doesn't have a custom GUI and excessive bells and whistles. Its a no-nonsense editor that is perfect for programming.
* Everything is scriptable, and every menu option is an ARexx command that you can change!
* It just gets the job done!

I don't know where you'll find the original now, I think Aminet only has the newer versions that are unstable here. I would make an archive from my installation, but its a bit heavily customised :-(
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2002, 10:37:09 AM »
AARGH! Need it, must have Blacks Editor!!!
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2002, 10:38:34 AM »
email me et pete@shagged.org and when I get home I'll try and make a sensible archive out of my hacked dir :) I think i got it on the cover of Amiga Shopper originally...

Actually, thinking about it, I have every Aminet CD going back to 22, i'll search there to see if the older version is on there... if its on 1 to 21, well, surely SOMEBODY here must have those CDs?
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2002, 10:55:00 AM »
You can send it to hardboy@amiga.org as it should be forwarding it.
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2002, 11:31:17 AM »
I nearly always use GoldEd 4 - I can't use the non-standard customised interface in v5 onwards, nothing in the interface seems to work how exactly how I expect it to..

The newer GoldEds (unsure which version it's from) have an option to use real tabs, rather than spaces.
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2002, 11:38:48 AM »
oops... misread something... ignore this post...
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2002, 11:52:25 AM »
@Tickly

Agreed, I use BED all the time. Once you get into BED, you'll never want to get out of it (groan).

@Hardboy

Have a look thru any coverdisks (AF,CU, etc). If you cannot find anything, mail me direct and I'll mail it to you. I use it a lot with ImageFX for modifying scripts. The Beauty of it is it can be set to run on the IFX screen, which saves me a lot of time.

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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2002, 12:11:54 PM »
VI... need I say more.

Okay, TextPad on Windows.
Ed or edit on Amiga.
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2002, 12:15:22 PM »
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Argo wrote:
VI... need I say more.


*shivers* evil nasty horrible piece of rubbish!

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Okay, TextPad on Windows.


EditPlus is faster, and generally nicer.

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Ed or edit on Amiga.


:lol: good one! (that was a joke, right? ;-) )
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2002, 01:02:24 PM »
You'd hope it was a joke :)
I guess Ed is better than nothing, but only just!

My personal favourite is CygnusEd.  Didn't know it had a problem with
CyberGFX.  I use Picasso96 here, so probably why I've never had an
issue with it.

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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2002, 02:16:35 PM »
I use the DevPac 2 editor. It's not very good-looking but it has all the features I want: It's very minimalistic but it still has those things you can't live without, like auto-indent and multiple windows.

A very similar public domain editor is JanoEd which I also use occasionally.
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2002, 02:21:49 PM »
PhatEdit on AmigaDE!!!!  :-D
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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2002, 02:34:36 PM »
@Hardboy
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cygnus-ed, won´t work correctly with CyberGFX. So now what?


Cygnus-Ed should work fine with CyberGraphX...
Just choose the "Use Public Screen" option, or switch the scrolling mode.  (If it's on Use Custom..., switch it to Use System Scrolling...)  These settings are on the first part of the "Environment" menu.  

That should do it.   ;-)  Or at least it does for CygnusEd 3.5 Pro

I've always used Cygnus Ed on CGx versions 2, 3, and 4 with no problems, once either of those options are set.  (If they're not set, you will get all sorts of strange characters and blurring effects when you scroll...)

EDIT: I take this back...  It seems that only the option "Open on Public Screen..." works to properly display on CyberGraphX 4.   :-(

So, you CAN use CygnusEd, but it has to open on your workbench rather than it's own screen.  
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Re: Your Favorite Text-Editor..
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2002, 02:50:32 PM »
Not entirely off topic:
Which is the best text-editor for Windows?
Are there any programs like Gold-ED?
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