Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!muslix!jac From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: AREXX vs REXX Message-ID: <30836@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 16 Aug 89 23:46:05 GMT References: <7841@ardent.UUCP> <4060@natinst.natinst.com> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) Distribution: comp.lang.rexx Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/UC Davis Lines: 29 In article <4060@natinst.natinst.com> kenm@natinst.com (Ken McKinney) writes: [...] >REXX and XEDIT make a great team. Does AREXX work well with the amiga editor? > There are now several Amiga editors which support AREXX, and since AREXX will be bundled with the next version of the OS, I suspect that having an AREXX interface will be a pretty basic requirement for text editors. The REXX/Editor combination is definitly a great one. For instance, AmigaTeX (the Amiga implementation of Knuth's TeX typesetting package) has excellent AREXX support. With AREXX and a compatible editor, this allows one to build a very nice integrated environment. For instance, I can send a file off to be previewed or printed, or (my favorite) I can mark a section of text (e.g. an equation or table) and have TeX preview only that piece. I've also written a REXX macro that works with an AREXX compatible database program. I use that database program for interactive entry of bibliographical material. Then I have a AREXX macro that will read the database and create a BibTeX database file. > >Ken McKinney (ex REXX programmer) >National Instruments > Austin, TX Jim