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Subject: -6- What's a good graphical text editor for SGIs?
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:00:01 EST
The most popular graphic text editors on SGIs include:
IRIX 5.x includes jot, which is very nice. It requires GL, i.e. no
X-terminals, text terminals or non-SGI machines. See below for a bug
and workaround. zip is the IRIX 4.x incarnation of jot (the jot which
comes with IRIX 4.x is something else entirely); FTP it from
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/zip/.
nedit is a straightforward graphical editor with programmers'
features. It needs X-windows but not GL. Get it from
ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/pub/nedit/, and see also
http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html.
GNU Emacs, a perennial favorite, isn't just an editor; it's a way of
life. It has a X-windows mode and works on X-windows terminals as
well as SGI consoles and text terminals. Its X-windows support, once
rather lackluster, has improved in the recently released version 19.
It may be FTPed from any GNU archive, e.g.
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/.
XEmacs (formerly Lucid Emacs) is a derivative of GNU Emacs 19. It has
subsumed Epoch, another derivative of GNU Emacs. It may be found in
ftp://cs.uiuc.edu/pub/xemacs/, and it has a WWW page at
http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/. It works on both text and graphics
terminals.
Finally, the comp.windows.x FAQ (at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.windows.x/) lists many more editors
which run under X-windows, both free and commercial.
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