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Welcome to the Skunkware '98 Editors section. Here you will find replacement editors. This section is concerned mainly with text editors, or general purpose editors, not graphics editors or specialty editors.
| Name | Description | Version | OSR5 | UnixWare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| elvis | Elvis | 2.0 | Yes | Yes |
| emacs | GNU Emacs | 20.2 | Yes | Yes |
| jed | Jed | 0.98.7 | Yes | No |
| joe | Joe | 2.8 | Yes | No |
| nedit | NEdit - GUI text editor | 5.0.2 | Yes | Yes |
| nvi | The New Vi | 1.79 | Yes | Yes |
| pico | Pico | 3.96 | Yes | No |
| vile | Vile | 7.3 | Yes | No |
| vim | Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor | 5.1 | Yes | Yes |
| xcoral | Xcoral | 3.14 | Yes | Yes |
| xemacs | XEmacs - the best Emacs ever | 20.4 | Yes | Yes |
| xhtml | HTML editor | 1.3 | Yes | Yes |
elvis is a text editor. It is intended to be a modern replacement for the classic ex/vi editor of UNIX fame. elvis supports many new features, including multiple edit buffers, multiple windows, multiple user interfaces (including an X11 interface), and a variety of display modes.
For a more complete description, you should see elvis's on-line documentation. To view this documentation, start elvis and then give the command ":help".
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/editors/elvis/
GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw2/editors/emacs/
Features:
Color syntax highlighting. Emulation of Emacs, EDT, Wordstar, and Brief editors. Extensible in a language resembling C. Completely customizable. Editing TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too). Folding support, and much more...
JOE is the professional freeware ASCII text screen editor for UNIX. It makes full use of the power and versatility of UNIX, but lacks the steep learning curve and basic nonsense you have to deal with in every other UNIX editor. JOE has the feel of most IBM PC text editors: The key-sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo-C. JOE is much more powerful than those editors, however. JOE has all of the features a UNIX user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, excellent screen update optimizations (JOE is fully useable at 2400 baud), simple installation, and all of the UNIX-integration features of VI.
NEdit is a GUI style plain-text editor for X/Motif systems. It is very easy to use, especially for those familiar with the Macintosh or MS Windows style of interface. Don't let the lack of pizzazz of this web-site, or the simplicity of NEdit's interface fool you. NEdit is now one of the most popular editors in the Unix community, and one of the most powerful. It has every significant feature required by professional programmers and other intensive users of plain-text editing, carefully optimized and organized around the principles and conventions of modern graphical user interfaces. NEdit is also the most mouse-interactive of all Unix text editors. Try it and see what you're missing.
NVI is the "new" vi, based on the original Berkeley source code. It has a few features which the original vi doesn't, and is considerably faster. A worthy replacement for the standard editor.
Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker.
Text editor with Vi and Emacs characteristics
Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to vi. It can be used to edit any ASCII text. It is especially useful for editing programs.
There are a lot of enhancements above vi: multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc.. Read vim_diff.txt for a summary of the differences between Vim and vi.
Xcoral is a multiwindow mouse-based text editor for the X Window System. A built-in browser enables you to navigate through C functions, C++ classes, methods and files. A Small Ansi C Interpreter is also built-in to dynamically extend the editor's possibilities (user functions, key bindings, modes etc). provides variable width fonts, menus, scrollbars, buttons, search, regions, kill-buffers, macros and undo. An on-line manual box, with a table of contents and an index, helps you to use and customize the editor. Commands are accessible from menus or key bindings. Xcoral is a direct Xlib client and runs on color/bw X Display.
XEmacs is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to date with recent versions of that product. This version has support for many extra features not found in GNU Emacs.
This archive contains two versions of X-Emacs, one with X11 support and one without. By default, the xemacs binary is linked to the version which does have X11 support built in. If you know that you will never be running XEmacs in X11 mode, you can change the link in /usr/local/bin to point to the non-X11 version. This will reduce the editor memory usage size as well as start up time.
xhtml is a splitscreen HTML editor allowing amendments of the source document and showing the HTML display of that source. The usual file editing facilities (open, amend, save etc.) are present by either using meta key combinations or by mouse selection via pulldown menus. Also most of the HTML functions such as heading, paragraphs, lists etc are available.
Last Updated: Sunday Jul 19, 1998 at 19:02:26 PDT
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