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- From: davea@analog1com (Dave Arndt)
- Subject: Re: Column Editor ??
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.023319.4731@news.mentorg.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:33:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.161928.20040@Princeton.EDU>, bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
- |> In article <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown ) writes:
- |> >Im looking for an editor which will ......
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- |>
- |> When I was a DOS user, I liked Kedit, from the Mansfield Software Group.
- |> It has very nice column editing features and outputs ASCII. The latest
- |> version, 5.0, works in DOS or OS2 and uses extended memory. (I don't
- |> have this version.) They are working on a Windows version. You can set
- |> record type to fixed, with a specified record length in order to pad
- |> records with blanks. A global change would change all blanks to 0.
- |>
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- |> I call them every so often and ask if they have plans to develop a Unix
- |> version, but so far the answer is "No". None of the Unix editors I've
- |> seen has the column editing power of Kedit; it's ideal for working with
- |> data and also for turning ugly output into something close to printable,
- |> so that TeX or a word-processor can easily handle the rest.
- |>
- |> Barbara Vaughan
- |>
-
- And of course, for those who might not be aware, Kedit is based
- *extensively* on the IBM SP editor Xedit for VM/CMS. Xedit is a line-
- based (like Kedit) editor with extensive integrations with IBM's REXX
- programming language. Much as I like unix, emacs and even vi ;-), I've
- got to admit that IBM scored some mighty impressive points with that
- editor.
-
- Regards,
- Dave
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- Dave Arndt
- Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville OR
- davea@wv.mentorg.com
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