Text editor

[Paul Stanard]

Is there a text editor that could be used in Tru64 on an alphaserver 8200?

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

there is of course the good old vi.
It also depends on, whether graphic or not.

Michael

[Paul Stanard]

Not graphical...was trying to avoid vi

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi again,

it also has the emacs editor.

Michael

[Sheldon Smith]

Check out the graphic interface with Vim. (http://www.vim.org) It has quite a few enhancements over basic Vi, not the least of which is the language sensitive syntax coloring for just about any language imaginable.
Including DCL.

Pre-built ports for OpenVMS at http://www.polarhome.com/vim/.

[Sheldon Smith]

Oops! Lost track of which forum I was reading.
For Unix systems, you can get the Vim sources at http://www.vim.org/download.php and simply build it.

[Mic V.]

There's also ed and ex if line editing is sufficient. emacs has an X11 version/interface called "xemacs" if you don't want to learn emacs' keystrokes.

Mic

[Ralf Puchner]

it is worth to play around with vi, because it is the "standard" editor on every unix machine and it very very simple...