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From: adjones@mcnc.UUCP (Amy D. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Request for TxEd info
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 01:06:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 15 01:06:31 1987
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I'm tired of Ed's weirdness with -characters and Tab expansion (etc),
so I'm looking around for an alternate editor.  uEmacs (The Extras 1.2
version) is very powerful, but I don't really like the way it 'feels'.
The multiple-character commands (i.e., ^X^D, ^Xe, ^X^X,...) seem clumbsy
to me--wouldn't it have been nicer to have used the 'Amiga'-key combinations
instead (though I suppose it wouldn't be uEmacs then).  Anyway, my point is
that I've played with the TxEd 1.3 demo and I really like it.  I know some
of you have it & I'm hoping you can give me some information about its
capabilities.  In particular, I'm interested in the following features:

 - Does it support any sort of macro structures--or can it take input from
   an external file?  This one feature (command files) has made the 'Edit'
   line editor very useful to me.

 - How about repeated commands?  By this I'm referring to the Ed *rp(..)
   or Edit 0(..) type of structure.

 - Is it easy to insert an external file at a certain point.  I've never
   seen an editor without this capability, but I thought I'd ask since
   I didn't see how to do it from the demo (no instructions).

 - How easy is it to export a marked block to another file?  This is
   very easy with Ed -- not so easy with uEmacs -- very slow with Edit.

Those specific questions come to mind, but anything else you want to throw
in (special likes/dislikes) would also be appreciated.  If there are any
other screen editors that I don't know about (Does anybody have MetaScribe
from Metadigm?) please tell me.

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