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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: AREXX vs REXX
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Date: 16 Aug 89 23:46:05 GMT
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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