The J7 beta has gotten way ahead of my technical knowledge of installations and such, and so I'm just going to wait until everything's ready for "normal" users. In any case, I know that some of you swear by Emacs as your editor of choice for J programming. I came across this in another list I follow and thought it might be of some interest:
Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that works in your browser. The developer says that it's an AJAX-based source code editor with syntax highlighting and automatic indentation. The current version 0.4 works in recent versions of Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers), Google Chrome and Apple Safari. The developer stated, "Of course, Emacs is a gigantic beast with some 30 years of history. ... I don't have enough time to copy all it's features ...." This is followed by a list of the features he has implemented. Since I don't use Emacs, I can't tell if anything critical is missing. I'm just mentioning it here for those of you who might want to take a look for yourselves. Since J seems to be moving more toward a browser-based platform, I thought this might be a useful adjunct for Emacs users. You can find it here: http://www.ymacs.org/ Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
