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From: MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: AREXX vs REXX
Message-ID: <21400@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Aug 89 06:21:50 GMT
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6854.3.45.3 Re: AREXX vs REXX
8/16/89 11:00 15/743 kenm@natinst.com (Ken McKinney)

Ken McKinney asks:
                   "Does AREXX work well with the amiga editor?"

I've used both UE (a highly configurable editor) and TxEd Plus, each has
an AREXX port. Mostly, due to its smaller size, I have spent a fair amount
of time with TxEd Plus and its AREXX port. I've found it quite helpful to
control the reference texts in in background windows from the foreground
window where I'm writing source code. In this particular case, I call a
command line in the foreground window (source code), type in a command
(roughly: "address TxEd_Plus_2/c LOA df1:include/xxxxx.h" -- which reads
           command to TxEd window 2, load file xxxxx.h from floppy disk 1 )
to any of the other two or three TxEd editing windows I have open and get
results. I'm  convinced that (A)REXX is the next best thing to multitasking
itself, a great pairing!!

                                 - MJB -