newsgroups: comp.editors,news.answers Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Followup-To: poster Subject: comp.editors - List of editors Expires: Sun 12 Sep 92 01:28:01 1992 GMT Reply-To: Ruben@Uib.no Archive-name: editor-faq/Editor_List Version: Thu Aug 13 01:27:53 GMT 1992 Intorduction ^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a list of some of the editors availible on the net. This list is constantly updated. There will always be a updated list on the VI/EX archives. I've restricted the various Emacs implementations to GNU emacs and microemacs, because of Craig Finseth's posting on emacs implementations. Also, if I haven't listed an editor here that you want to find, then it may be a good idea for you to look at the 'How to find sources' article which is regularly posted to comp.sources.wanted, alt.sources and news.answers. And then when you find it, tell me about it. I would be exstremly happy if you could submit the same information that the editors in this posting have. I've tried to list at least ONE site in each part of the world (Europe, North America, Australia and Asia). Anonymous FTP ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To fetch a file from anomymous FTP do the following steps after beeing connected to the FTP server: - When the FTP server asks for a login, try either 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. - When the FTP server asks for a password, your password is the same as your login-ID and your hostname. To enter this properly, use the following format: LoginID@HostName.DomainName. DO NOT use 'ident' or 'guest' since this is bad nettiquette. If you are going to use FTP, use the site that is the closest to you counting NET-VICE. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please ask someone who know (ie. your system administrator). Why YOU shold use the site closest to you NET-VICE: - Faster access. - Reducing the net load. - Keeping the site. Please do NOT use ftp to the sites during peak hours at the various locations. Please respect this or else, if there is too much FTP'ing going on prime time to the various places, the ftp site may have to shut down. NON OF US WOULD WANT THAT, WOULD WE ? So what is the peak hours at the various places in the world ? - Usualy from 0800 AM to 0500 PM LOCAL TIME. Do absolutely NOT post a question to this news-group or other news-groups questions about how to use FTP. Ask this question to your local system administrator or at your local help desk. There is also a FAQ on how to use FTP. Look for it in the news.answers newsgroups. I need your help ! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have only access to UNIX, CMS, VMS and MSDOS computers. Therefore editors from other machines and OS' will be exstremly limited unless YOU help me out. Editor writers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you are a editor writer I would be happy to receive information about your editor. What I want is: Editor name, Current release, Maintainer (name and email adress), what OS the editor run's on. The editor's file name (Example: fooBarEd.tar.Z) for easy searching with archie is a must :-), either this or you include FTP sites where the editor is sure to be found. A description of your editor should be limited to 15 lines of text. Copyright ^^^^^^^^^ This listing is copyright (C) Ove Ruben R Olsen. All rights reserved. The listings ^^^^^^^^^^^^ After a Anonymous FTP entry there is a date. This date is when the FAQ maintainer last cheked the existance of the entry. The date in the Current release, is the date when the maintainer got the information about the upgrade or when the upgrade was announced on NetNews. 001) Ant's Editor. 002) ce 003) Crisp 004) Elvis 005) FPTED 006) GNU Emacs 007) JOE's editor. 008) Jstevie 009) Mutt Editor 2 010) Microemacs 011) Mined 012) Origami 013) pico 014) REDT 015) Sedt Editor 016) SLIM 017) Stevie 018) TECO 019) TERSE 020) Vile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Ant's Editor. Current Release: Anthony's Editor May 92 Maintainer: Anthony Howe Operating system(s): UXIX based systems. Atari ST, MS-DOS AE'92 merges two schools of thought by providing both VI style (modual) and EMACS style (modeless) editing interfaces. One can start an editor session in one style or the other and switch during a session. The source should be portable to any environment that provides a K&R C compiler and a CURSES library. The editor has Online help and support for function keys on using TERMCAP. The source can be obtained directly from the author. -------------- Editor: ce Current Release: v1.1e (Jun 30 1992) Maintainer: Charles Henrich (henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu) Anonymous FTP: crs.cl.msu.edu:/pub/cedist.tar.Z (920810) Operating system(s): UNIX (ATT3B2, SUN, AIX3, NEXT, CONVEX) The CE editor is a modeless, easy to use and configurable editor. The neat thing about this editor is that if your terminal is not in the set of configured terminals, you can invoke it with a command line option that prompts you for the various keystrokes it uses, and then creates a .file for that terminal for you, so it will always work. It makes extensive use of function keys, and lets you use escape sequences if you don't have them. Submitted by: Steven Fought (keeper@lighthouse.caltech.edu) -------------- Editor: Crisp Current Release: 2.2e Maintainer: Paul Fox Anonymous FTP: ftp.uu.net:pub/crisp/cr_2.2e.tar.Z.* Crisp is a Brief lookalike. Crisp has also gone comercial for the laiter versions. -------------- Editor: Elvis Current Release: 1.5 Maintainer: Steve Kirkendall Anonymous FTP: prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/elvis-1.4.tar.Z ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu/elvis-1.4.tar.Z Any alt.sources archives for version 1.5. Operating system(s): MS-Dos 3.xx and up. Atari TOS, OS/2, AmigaDOS. UNIX based systems. Elvis is one of the best PD Vi clones around. It is not 100% compatible with the real vi/ex. Elvis has many small extensions, some omissions, and a few features which are implemented in a slightly different manner. A lot of people uses Elvis instead of the real 'VI' :-) -------------- Editor: FPTED Current Release: R4.0 (18/Feb/92) Maintainer: Fernando J. G. Pereira (fjp@minerva.inesc.pt) Anonymous FTP: minerva.inesc.pt:pub/aplic/fpted4.tar.Z Operating system(s): UNIX based systems. FPTED is a, easy to use, text editor, that allows the user to do almost all of the most used features in other text editors. It isn't as powerful as "vi", or "emacs", but I think, it's easy to use, its runtime version is very small (in disk space), and it lets you do almost everything you usually do in other editors. -------------- Editor: GNU Emacs Current Release: 18.58 Maintainer: Joseph Arceneux Anonymous FTP: prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/emacs-18.58.tar.Z ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu/emacs/18.58.Z.* GNU Emacs is one of the most popular editors around. It's very big, very powerful and extensible, and lots of people use it. In a Usenet poll, it had about equal footing with vi in terms of number of people using it. Gnu.emacs.help and Comp.emacs are good places to look for more information about GNU Emacs. -------------- Editor: JOE's editor. Current Release: 29 Sept 1988?? Maintainer: Joseph H. Allen Anonymous FTP: wpi.wpi.edu:stusrc/joe.tar.Z Joe is a small and easily configurable editor, with wordstar bindings as default. Apparently the ideal editor for users coming from the IBM PC/DOS world. -------------- Editor: Jstevie Current Release: 1.3 Maintainer: Junn Ohta Anonymous FTP: utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11], as ftp/jstevie1.3.tar.Z Operating system(s): UNIX, MS-DOS, OS/2 Jstevie is an improved version of Stevie 3.69 and can be used to edit Japanese text encoded in either Shift JIS, 7-bit JIS, or EUC, as well as other 8-bit text. It also features tag stack, abbreviations, and map(!)s. To edit Japanese on UNIX, you should link it to the ONEW library, which is a client interface to the Wnn Kanji Server. The latest version of ONEW is available from etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]. [Sub: Eric E. Bowles ] -------------- Editor: Mutt Editor 2 Current Release: Unknown Maintainer: Craig Durland (craig@cv.hp.com) Anonymous FTP: hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com:pub/pub/me2.shar.Z WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL:ME_CD22.ZIP (Old MSDOS ver.) Operating system(s): HP-UX (Series 800, 700 and 300), BSD Unix (Sun, Apollo, DEC, etc) IBM AIX, OSF/POSIX (HP and DEC), MS-DOS/PC-DOS (IBM PCs and compatibles) OS/2 and Atari (TOS and MiNT). ME2 is a medium-small, portable, extendable Emacs' like editor that is known to compile and run on a wide flavor of architechtures. Standalone, ME2 is pretty mundane - you need to customize it to make full use of it. A compiled language is provided for this as well as lots of example programs: a C mode, paren matching, a visual towers of hanoi, incremental searching, programmers calculator, mark rings, multi file search (and replace) picture mode (from GNU Emacs), gomoku (from GNU Emacs) and lots more. Other features include undo and the ability to have concurrent processes (such as make) running in a buffer (Unix only). -------------- Editor: Microemacs Current Release: 3.11 Maintainer: Daniel M. Lawrence Anonymous FTP: midas.mgmt.purdue.edu:dist/uemacs311/* Another easy to use and small editor. Emacs based. Easily extensible. -------------- Editor: Mined Current Release: July 1992 (comp.editors postings) Maintainer: Thomas Wolff (wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de) Operating system(s): UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS Its original version is the editor that comes along with Andrew S. Tanenbaum's operating system minix. This version has som exchangemet over the original: enabling arbitrary terminals, windows with dynamic size changes, full 8 bit compatibility and support, function keys, improved user interface. Has a great deal of commands. Modeless editor. This editor is a good candidate for people comming from the MS-DOS world. -------------- Editor: Origami Current Release: 1.6.30 Maintainer: Michael Haardt Anonymous FTP: irisa.irisa.fr:News/comp.binaries.atari.st/volume16/origami wuarchive.wustl.edu:usenet/comp.binaries.atari.st/volume16/origami ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de:minix/beta/origami/origami.tar.Z Origami is a folding editor for Atari ST's, Minix and SunOS. -------------- Editor: pico Current Release: 1.4 (Thu Aug 13 00:27:48 GMT 1992) Maintainer: Found inside the Pine package. Anonymous FTP: ftp.cac.washington.edu:/mail/pine/pine.4.3.tar.Z Pico is originally derived from MicroEmacs 3.6 and is found inside the 'Pine' mail system composer. Pico is a simple, modeless, display-oriented text editor based on the Pine mail system composer. Commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context sensitive help is provided. As characters are typed they are immediately inserted into the text. Editing commands are entered using control-key combinations. The editor has three basic features: paragraph justification, case insensitive searching, and a spelling checker. Michael Seibel (mikes@cac.washington.edu) and Laurence Lundblade (lgl@cac.washington.edu) has written the Pico editor. -------------- Editor: REDT Current Release: Version 2.1 (25 Nov 91 00:12:20 GMT) Maintainer: Roger Nelson (rnelson@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu) Operating system(s): UNIX (SGI/IRIX, HP-UX, SunOS, AT&S/SysV, DEC/ULTRIX) AmigaOS REDT follows a VMS/EDT text editing model and is similar to the SEDT text editor by Anker Berg-Sonne. REDT is curses based and should compile under any UNIX system. A version for the Amiga is now available by request. REDT allows you to make full use of your keyboard so you can bind commands to almost any escape/control/function key sequence. A full screen interactive utility is provided to generate [the human readable] command key binding files. REDT can be compiled with Mike Sweet's cmenu library for pulldown menus, and gadgets. Some of the features: - Columnwise cut and paste. - Cursor movement and character insertion past EOLN. - Format ruler line and paragraph fill and justify. - Multiple buffers (9). - Macro language. The editor can be obtained from the maintainer via email. He will eventualy setup a anonymous FTP site when SGI get's on the network in a few months. -------------- Editor: Sedt Editor Current Release: Version 4.2 3-Feb-1991 Maintainer: Anker Berg-Sonne (72337,3211%compuserve.com@CS.RELAY.NET) Anonymous FTP: aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de:msdos/editors/sedt40.zip aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de:msdos/mswindows/sedtwin.zip dnpap.et.tudelft.nl:pub/Os2/sedt40.zoo luga.latrobe.edu.au:pub/os2/editors/sedt40.zoo wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/editor/sedt40pc.arc wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/editor/sedt40pc.arc Operating system(s): IBM-PC MSDOS (and Windows), OS/2 DEC Rainbow, Atari ST VAX ULTIRX, RISC ULTIRX SCO SysV, SCO XENIX EDT editor. Not much information yet. -------------- Editor: SLIM Current Release: 0.9 (24 Jul 92 03:40:19 GMT) Maintainer: Joseph Gil Anonymous FTP: cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140f.zip The full distribution: ~175K Operating system(s): MSDOS The SLIM editor, a bigger brother to TERSE. SLIM is a big brother of TERSE. It can do anything TERSE can, and a lot more, including: "read file into buffer" command, "switch to another file" command , "go to line number" command , "set right margin" command , "swap cursor and mark" command , "pump block thru external filter" command , "exchange marked block with paste buffer" command , "right margin set" command and word wrap, and display of the hexadecimal value of the current char in the status line. Many features can be easily added to SLIM by virtue of the "pump block thru buffer command. Word counting, date and time stamping, formatting, sorting, column summation, character sets conversions are just a few examples. Sophisticated users should probably get copy of a DOS port of the famous UNIX 'sed' and 'awk', and harness their power to enhance SLIM. The effects of the extenal filter can be undone. -------------- Editor: Stevie Current Release: Unknown Maintainer: Tony Andrews Anonymous FTP: ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/* nic.funet.fi:pub/minix/stevie Another good vi clone. -------------- Editor: TECO Current Release: Unknown Maintainer: Matt Fichtenbaum Anonymous FTP: usc.edu:pub/teco ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume9/* munnari.oz.au:comp.sources.unix/volume9/* The best editor *ever*. :-) Commands look like line noise (even more so than vi). The usc.edu has perhaps the most complete collection of tecos avalible. It has documentation, macros and a wealth of teco implementations. -------------- Editor: TERSE Current Release: 1.4 (24 Jul 92 03:40:19 GMT) Maintainer: Joseph Gil Anonymous FTP: wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:PD1:TERSE11.ZIP cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140f.zip The full distribution: ~175K cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140a.zip An abridged distribution: ~27K Operating system(s): MSDOS TERSE is a tiny (only 4096 bytes) but amazingly powerful full-screen editor for files of up to 64K in length. TERSE runs on all PC compatible machines. Its command keys are very similar to those of the famous BRIEF editor (by UnderWare Inc.). TERSE can edit both UNIX and MS-DOS style text files as well as binary files. No hacker's disk is complete without it. No disk, be it hard or floppy, is too full to include it. -------------- Editor: Vile Current Release: 3.9 Maintainer: Paul Fox Anonymous FTP: ftp.cayman.com:pub/vile/vile3.18shar.Z Vile is a vi feelalike. It's based around Microemacs, but modifed to look (feel) like vi. You can't really say its a vi clone, because its not *that* vi-like. --------------