Welcome to the Skunkware 7 Editors section. Here you will find replacement editors. This section is concerned mainly with text editors, or general purpose editors, not graphics editors or specialty editors.

Package List

ex/vi clone

elvis is a text editor. It is intended to be a modern replacement for the classic ex/vi editor of UNIX fame. elvis supports many new features, including multiple edit buffers, multiple windows, multiple user interfaces (including an X11 interface), and a variety of display modes.

For a more complete description, you should see elvis's on-line documentation. To view this documentation, start elvis and then give the command ":help".

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/elvis/

ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/

NEdit - GUI text editor

NEdit is a GUI style plain-text editor for X/Motif systems. It is very easy to use, especially for those familiar with the Macintosh or MS Windows style of interface. Don't let the lack of pizzazz of this web-site, or the simplicity of NEdit's interface fool you. NEdit is now one of the most popular editors in the Unix community, and one of the most powerful. It has every significant feature required by professional programmers and other intensive users of plain-text editing, carefully optimized and organized around the principles and conventions of modern graphical user interfaces. NEdit is also the most mouse-interactive of all Unix text editors. Try it and see what you're missing.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/nedit/

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/editors/nedit/

ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/pub/nedit/

http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html

The New VI

NVI is the "new" vi, based on the original Berkeley source code. It has a few features which the original vi doesn't, and is considerably faster. A worthy replacement for the standard editor.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/editors/nvi/

ftp://ftp.bostic.com/pub/

http://www.bostic.com/vi

Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor

Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to vi. It can be used to edit any ASCII text. It is especially useful for editing programs.

There are a lot of enhancements above vi: multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc.. Read vim_diff.txt for a summary of the differences between Vim and vi.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/editors/vim/

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/vim/

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/editors/vim/

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/

graphical text editor

Xcoral is a multiwindow mouse-based text editor for the X Window System. A built-in browser enables you to navigate through C functions, C++ classes, methods and files. A Small Ansi C Interpreter is also built-in to dynamically extend the editor's possibilities (user functions, key bindings, modes etc). provides variable width fonts, menus, scrollbars, buttons, search, regions, kill-buffers, macros and undo. An on-line manual box, with a table of contents and an index, helps you to use and customize the editor. Commands are accessible from menus or key bindings. Xcoral is a direct Xlib client and runs on color/bw X Display.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/

ftp://ftp.inria.fr/X/contrib-R5/clients/

X-Emacs

XEmacs is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to date with recent versions of that product. This version has support for many extra features not found in GNU Emacs.

This archive contains two versions of X-Emacs, one with X11 support and one without. By default, the xemacs binary is linked to the version which does have X11 support built in. If you know that you will never be running XEmacs in X11 mode, you can change the link in /usr/local/bin to point to the non-X11 version. This will reduce the editor memory usage size as well as start up time.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/editors/xemacs/

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/xemacs/

ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/

http://www.xemacs.org/

hypertext markup language editor

xhtml is a splitscreen HTML editor allowing amendments of the source document and showing the HTML display of that source. The usual file editing facilities (open, amend, save etc.) are present by either using meta key combinations or by mouse selection via pulldown menus. Also most of the HTML functions such as heading, paragraphs, lists etc are available.

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/editors/

http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/editors/ashe

ftp://ftp.cs.rpi.edu/pub/puninj/ASHE/README.html

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/TALK/head.html

Last Updated: Friday Mar 19, 1999 at 14:09:33 PST

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