topic Re: Full screen text editor in Operating System - HP-UX

Full screen text editor

cdemel01 — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:10:18 GMT

Hi

Have a RX server running HP-UX 11iv2.
looking for a full screen text editor for this version of hp-ux. can any body help me through with this pls. would emacs support this. if so how to get emacs for hp-ux 11iv2.

thanks

cdem

Re: Full screen text editor

spex — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:18:21 GMT

Hi,

Umm.. how about vi? It's the standard editor under POSIX, so it is included with most any UNIX.

If you must use emacs, it's available here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/emacs-21.4/

There's also vim, nano, joe, and a host of others. Have a look at the "Editors" category on "The Porting and Archiving Centre":

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/

PCS

Re: Full screen text editor

cdemel01 — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:05:08 GMT

Thanks
I have allready tried http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/emacs-21.4/
but the gz seems to be giving issues when trying to unzip using gunzip.
also "the" seems to be pretty ok as a full screen text editor but could not find a verion for IA64 hp-ux 11iv2 in the site.
is their any way to make emacs as a full screen text editor which will support extended columns.

Re: Full screen text editor

Rory R Hammond — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:10:58 GMT

Using a xwindows env, like CDE you can use the text editor. On my system CDE (common desktop environment) uses /usr/dt/bin/dtpad.

Our company uses ReflectionX, or Exceed.

Re: Full screen text editor

Steven Schweda — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:28:24 GMT

> [...] but the gz seems to be giving issues
> [...]

Sometimes it helps when you show the command
you used, and the output it produced. A
non-description, like some vague action is
"giving issues", is more annoying then useful.

Magazine publishers give issues. Computer
programs (or users) have problems.

I'd suggest using Vim ("-g"). I find it less
painful than plain "vi".

http://www.vim.org/

Re: Full screen text editor

Bill Hassell — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:24:44 GMT

> gz seems to be giving issues when trying to unzip using gunzip.

Probably because you used a PC in the middle and transferred the package using ASCII ftp and corrupted the data. Download the package again and make sure you specify BINARY when using ftp.

GUI-style editors are painful to use. You need to setup Xwindows emulation on your PC, then you're stuck with poking the cursor around the screen like Notepad on a PC. vi is 100x more powerful than a typical GUI editor -- all it takes is a little time and the mandatory textbook: The Ultimate Guide to vi.

Re: Full screen text editor

cdemel01 — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:29:55 GMT

Hi

managed to find a full screen text editor called "the" from http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/

installed on IA69 and PARISC running HP-UX 11iV2.

working pretty fine so far.
will try all suggetions and thanks for the help given.

regs

cdem

Re: Full screen text editor

cdemel01 — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:31:46 GMT

refer above