#: 18801 S5/OS9 Users Group
    12-Sep-93  22:16:40
Sb: #18788-Program Editor
Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

I hear ya.  I needed one editor too.  I tried to learn emacs a few years ago
and didn't like it.  I finally gave up and wrote one, but switched to vi when
the first clone came available.  I said I run vi on OSK, DOS, and Unix, but I
forgot to mention it runs on my ST also.  Anyway, editors are like religion,
and inspire about as much passion in discussions.  Some folks like emacs style
modeless editors.  I much prefer an editor with seperate modes for text entry
and changes, like vi.  Drives me crazy to have to prefix everything with a meta
char or two.  I use the colon interface a lot for global changes and such (I
maintain a lot of code vs. just entering text). But I never found a small
enough vi or emacs for the 09.  I just saw what looks like vi in the dls that
runs on an 09 (it said OS-9, not OSK??) so perhaps that would help.  I know you
can get emacs like editors for the PC, and real emacs must exist for Unix.  Or,
elvis should compile on OS-9000 easily and I have working OSK and PC binaries
if you want.

As I reread this, I see and example of passion.  I wrote an editor so I
wouldn't have to use emacs.....

Carl