> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Ken wrote: >>> On 05/03/2010 10:37 AM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> someone wrote: >>>>> .... >>>>> Nobody's mentioned glade2-- or as its listed in the gnome menu, >> <snip> >>>>> For an editor I use emacs because I can use it for just about >>>>> anything >>>>> vi. >>>>> from creating plain text, shell scripts, html docs, and C code. <snip> >>>> mark "we should take this to alt.religion.editors" <snip> >> Of course, the one *I* want is brief. I think $$ome editor$ still >> advertise brief emulation mode. *How* many keystrokes is it to do column >> copy in emacs? > > YES, brief is the best editor I have ever used. There are several > features like that I still miss. I actually have a couple of copies of > it in the original boxes, but it only runs on xx-DOS or OS/2. I plan to > use one of them on some 80386 based PC/104 boards I am getting ready to > reactivate. It will fit nicely into the 2MB flash drive with DR-DOS. I've got the original boxes, too - from somewhere I worked. I keep meaning to see if they'll run under wine or xbox. AND the entire editor fits on two 5.25" floppies.... mark "which would mean I'd have to halt my machine, and install the drive, as I've been meaning to, so I could go through and get rid of the several hundred 5.25" floppies I've been dragging around...."