RE: TED--a Linux Xy-type editor?

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

I've looked at Ted before, but normally don't have a Linux system up and
running. The Win32 version of Ted runs on WinXP, but development seems to
have stopped in 1998, well short of XyWin's capabilities.

We will have a number of alternatives:

1) Move to a markup language approach to writing rather than a
wordprocessor. HTML and similar things seem to be widely used, although
editing them is a real pain. My personal preference is LaTeX, although the
learning curve for this can be pretty steep. Once you're up the hill,
though, it is extremely efficient for actual writing.

If we use a markup language, just about any text editor will do the job, and
there are several nice ones out there. WinEdt is extremely powerful, though
fairly "techie". The only XyWrite capacity it presently lacks is "Save-Gets"
on-the-fly... But then who else has them? Certainly not BillGatesWrite.

2) Buy Nota Bene and pressure the company to reinstitute and maintain the
XyWrite capacities. They have already moved in this direction.

3) Try to find a XyWriter who is also an old-fashioned assembly-level
programmer and would enjoy trying to modify XyWin code as it stands. I am
not convinced this is technically impossible, though it can hardly be easy.
Years ago someone modified XyWrite II+ code for me so it would run on a
weird Hyperion computer, and for several upgrades I managed to use Debug (is
that what it's called?) to make changes myself.

4) Assemble a list of XyWrite core functions and capabilities we want
preserved and try to convince someone to assemble an editor with these
properties.

5) Revert to penknife, quill and inkwell, or a similarly robust technology.

Myron Gochnauer
UNB Law

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Binswanger [mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:02 AM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: TED--a Linux Xy-type editor?
>
> This is re the eventual death of XyWrite due to being not
> runnable on future OS's.
>
> Searching the web for a Xywrite-type editor, I hit upon "TED"
> for Linux:
>
> "TED is a multi-purpose text editor with IDE (integrated development
> environment) features for UNIX-like operating systems. It is
> not a word processor although it does provide some word
> processing facilities. TED has no internal restrictions on
> file length or line length.
>
> "TED works:
> ".	on conventional text terminals (e.g. vt100, wyse60),
> including the
> terminal emulators (e.g. xterm). Under Linux it uses termcap
> as a database of terminal capabilities;
> ".	on IBM PC with the full support of mouse, multi-color, various
> video-modes and scan-codes;
> ".	as a native Xlib application under X Window system. "
>
> What caught my eye was this:
>
> "Keyboard macros. You can record a sequence of any keystrokes
> and run it with a single key, save it in file for later use,
> or bind a macro to any abbreviation.
>
> "Undo/Redo facility. You can define the size of undo buffer yourself.
>
> "Fully redefinable keyboard. You can bind editor's commands
> and macros to any key sequence to meet your requirements.
>
> "The editor is binary-clean and 8-bit clean."
>
> Does anyone know about TED? The site is:
> http://kpdus.tripod.com/ted.html
>
> I suspect that this is something from the 90s, given this:
>
> "History:
>
> "TED has been developed in 1993-1994 while I was working in
> the Russian software company Eagle Dynamics Ltd. The editor
> has a status of commercial product available for various UNIX
> platforms. In 1996 I've got a permission from the company to
> maintain a free version of TED for Linux operating system.
> This fully functional version is distributed in binary-only
> form and without printed documentation."
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> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>