[102237] in RedHat Linux List
Re: (EDT|Brief)-like editor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Wed Dec 2 01:26:42 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 22:25:06 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <199812020609.HAA19828@agora.stm.it> from "G.Boggio@agora.stm.it" at Dec 2, 98 07:09:40 am
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> with Coherent a few years ago: I stopped using it simply because I
> got bored with having to use MicroEmacs for editing (I didn't even
> consider using the Vi clone, Elvis).
Linux is a much more complete and more powerful system than Coherent
(mostly because Coherent was forced to run on older hardware). As
such, there are plenty of editors you could run without running up
against the limits of the OS. For instance, you could run the real
Emacs - it's on your CD, as are several others.
> I have read about Crisp, but I have no intention of parting with $100
> just to get an editor, having got the whole OS for $5. I have the
Crisp is supposedly quite good. I think there's a demo of it on one
of the Redhat official 5.x three-CD set (I think I saw it on the
third CD) But of course, you might not have that readily available.
Emacs is heavily programmable, and there just might be Brief-like
keybindings (or EDT keybindings) out there that you could get.
> source for ED (the EDT clone by Rush Record) and I could try compiling
> it under Linux, but I would of course prefer to get a ready-to-run
I would recommend trying to compile it, just for learning
purposes. You'll probably be compiling a number of things on
Linux over the time you use it. And Linux is readily easy to
port stuff to.
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