Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!MJB 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 References: <7841@ardent.UUCP> <4060@natinst.natinst.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 20 In: 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 -