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to: Yvan Picot
from: Geert Bosch
date: 1994-10-13 13:31:00
subject: text editor

Yvan Picot wrote in a message to All:

 YP> What are the fully-totaly configurable text editor on os2
 YP> (both in text and on WPS).
The standard EPM is totally configurable, although many people do not
notice this. I always thought of EPM as 'just' another editor, and
discovered its power by chance. One day I wanted to write a very simple .C
file and for some reason I decided to use EPM. 
As soon as I started with typing 'main ', the following was produced by the
ediitor (| denotes cursor):

main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
  |
}

Soon I discovered that EPM had a very nice syntax completion scheme where
you don't have to type all the punctuation and layout and things. As the
editor was also capable of syntax completion for Rexx scripts, I thought
things should be configurable.

To make a long story short, EPM turned out to be e very flexible editor,
that is really a script using IBM's Editor ToolKit. The sources that
determine the behaviour of are available by anonymous FTP (I don't have a
site handy) and these sources can be easily modified and recompiled. So if
your main goal is to have an editor that you can completely adapt and
configure to your own needs, you really should check out EPM and its
toolkits.

There are also several extensions available, for example scripts that can
do syntax completion for the TeX document processing software. These
scripts also extend the EPM menu with commands to process and display the
TeX (or LaTeX) 
documents.

 YP> But, please, don't start to fight with "my editor is better
 YP> that your's". ;-)

I wouldn't want to. But because there are so many people asking for a
powerfull editor without knowing what's behind OS/2's EPM I think a little
bit of advertising might help some people.
BTW: There's also a very good port of Emacs available. 

Groetjes, Geert 
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