Editors are like religion once you have a favorite you defend it like crazy.
I discovered the Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
(Brief), initially sold by Underware😁 and then Solution Systems, in the
late 80s. It quickly became my favorite editor. Eventually Borland
bought it and killed it.
Now I use SlickEdit in Brief emulation mode on Windows and several
versions of Linux. Slickedit is a great multi emulation, powerful
editor. I recommend you check it out.
Deep down inside I also have a soft spot for EMACS.
And, BTW, there is a native (not Teco macros) OS/8 version of an EMACS
like editor that can be found here:
https://tangentsoft.com/e8/wiki?name=Home
I have used it extensively on my PiDP-8/I under OS/8 and I intend to use
it on my real, newly acquired, PDP-8/E when I get some mass storage and
I can run OS/8.
On 9/28/2021 1:27 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
I found files for my favorite DOS editor on an archive from my OS/2
machine, which replaced my DOS machine in about 1990.
The editor was ETOOL, from Amerisoft.
If anybody wants the files, I'm happy to send them.
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsnyder staff 245248 Mar 8 1988 e/dos/etool.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsnyder staff 1024 Mar 8 1988 e/dos/etool.fig
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsnyder staff 83968 Jul 9 1985 e/dos/etool.hlp
I lost the manual decades ago.
Van Snyder
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