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- From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Better, free xedit ?
- Organization: Motorola, Inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:47:18 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: rico@darwin.bio.uci.edu's message of 20 Jan 93 21:40:03 GMT
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- In article <2B5DC6B3.7966@news.service.uci.edu> rico@darwin.bio.uci.edu (Rico Miledi) writes:
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- My users will spend no money for an editor, but always
- complain that none is available. I point them to vi, emacs or pico
- but they just howl. They want rodents and a "simple" interface.
-
- xedit would be fine if it had buttons to search and
- "cut", instead of cntrl-s and cntrl-w. It would also be nice
- to have a little more functionality like pico's built in speller
- and the ability to go to a specified line number etc.
-
- This would be for running under X.
-
- Can anyone help ?
-
- Thanks. Rico.
-
- Try aXe version 3.1 which you can get via anonymous ftp from
- export.lcs.mit.edu. It's in the contrib subdirectory under the
- filename aXe-3.1.tar.Z. It's an X-based editor which is completely
- mouse driven (the keyboard emulates Emacs for the most part) with
- pull-down menus and mouse-based cut-and-paste. Hope this helps.
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