1 newsgroups: comp.editors,news.answers
2 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
4 Subject: comp.editors - List of editors
5 Expires: Sun 12 Sep 92 01:28:01 1992 GMT
8 Archive-name: editor-faq/Editor_List
10 Version: Thu Aug 13 01:27:53 GMT 1992
14 This is a list of some of the editors availible on the net.
16 This list is constantly updated. There will always be a updated
17 list on the VI/EX archives.
19 I've restricted the various Emacs implementations to GNU emacs and
20 microemacs, because of Craig Finseth's posting on emacs implementations.
22 Also, if I haven't listed an editor here that you want to find, then it
23 may be a good idea for you to look at the 'How to find sources' article
24 which is regularly posted to comp.sources.wanted, alt.sources and
26 And then when you find it, tell me about it. I would be exstremly happy
27 if you could submit the same information that the editors in this posting
30 I've tried to list at least ONE site in each part of the world (Europe,
31 North America, Australia and Asia).
36 To fetch a file from anomymous FTP do the following steps after beeing
37 connected to the FTP server:
38 - When the FTP server asks for a login, try either 'anonymous' or
40 - When the FTP server asks for a password, your password is the
41 same as your login-ID and your hostname. To enter this properly,
42 use the following format:
43 LoginID@HostName.DomainName.
44 DO NOT use 'ident' or 'guest' since this is bad nettiquette.
46 If you are going to use FTP, use the site that is the closest to you
47 counting NET-VICE. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please
48 ask someone who know (ie. your system administrator).
50 Why YOU shold use the site closest to you NET-VICE:
52 - Reducing the net load.
55 Please do NOT use ftp to the sites during peak hours at the various
56 locations. Please respect this or else, if there is too much FTP'ing
57 going on prime time to the various places, the ftp site may have to
58 shut down. NON OF US WOULD WANT THAT, WOULD WE ?
59 So what is the peak hours at the various places in the world ? - Usualy
60 from 0800 AM to 0500 PM LOCAL TIME.
62 Do absolutely NOT post a question to this news-group or other news-groups
63 questions about how to use FTP. Ask this question to your local system
64 administrator or at your local help desk. There is also a FAQ on how to
65 use FTP. Look for it in the news.answers newsgroups.
70 I have only access to UNIX, CMS, VMS and MSDOS computers. Therefore
71 editors from other machines and OS' will be exstremly limited unless
77 If you are a editor writer I would be happy to receive information about
78 your editor. What I want is: Editor name, Current release, Maintainer
79 (name and email adress), what OS the editor run's on. The editor's
80 file name (Example: fooBarEd.tar.Z) for easy searching with archie is a
81 must :-), either this or you include FTP sites where the editor is
82 sure to be found. A description of your editor should be limited to
88 This listing is copyright (C) Ove Ruben R Olsen. All rights reserved.
93 After a Anonymous FTP entry there is a date. This date is when the FAQ
94 maintainer last cheked the existance of the entry.
95 The date in the Current release, is the date when the maintainer got
96 the information about the upgrade or when the upgrade was announced on
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121 Editor: Ant's Editor.
122 Current Release: Anthony's Editor May 92
123 Maintainer: Anthony Howe <ant@mks.com>
129 AE'92 merges two schools of thought by providing both VI
130 style (modual) and EMACS style (modeless) editing
131 interfaces. One can start an editor session in one style
132 or the other and switch during a session.
134 The source should be portable to any environment that
135 provides a K&R C compiler and a CURSES library.
137 The editor has Online help and support for function keys on
140 The source can be obtained directly from the author.
145 Current Release: v1.1e (Jun 30 1992)
146 Maintainer: Charles Henrich (henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu)
149 crs.cl.msu.edu:/pub/cedist.tar.Z (920810)
151 UNIX (ATT3B2, SUN, AIX3, NEXT, CONVEX)
153 The CE editor is a modeless, easy to use and configurable
156 The neat thing about this editor is that if your terminal
157 is not in the set of configured terminals, you can invoke
158 it with a command line option that prompts you for the
159 various keystrokes it uses, and then creates a .file for
160 that terminal for you, so it will always work. It makes
161 extensive use of function keys, and lets you use escape
162 sequences if you don't have them.
164 Submitted by: Steven Fought (keeper@lighthouse.caltech.edu)
169 Current Release: 2.2e
170 Maintainer: Paul Fox <fox@demon.co.uk>
173 ftp.uu.net:pub/crisp/cr_2.2e.tar.Z.*
175 Crisp is a Brief lookalike.
177 Crisp has also gone comercial for the laiter versions.
183 Maintainer: Steve Kirkendall <kirkenda@jov.cs.pdx.edu>
186 prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/elvis-1.4.tar.Z
187 ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu/elvis-1.4.tar.Z
188 Any alt.sources archives for version 1.5.
191 Atari TOS, OS/2, AmigaDOS.
194 Elvis is one of the best PD Vi clones around. It is not
195 100% compatible with the real vi/ex. Elvis has many small
196 extensions, some omissions, and a few features which are
197 implemented in a slightly different manner. A lot of
198 people uses Elvis instead of the real 'VI' :-)
203 Current Release: R4.0 (18/Feb/92)
204 Maintainer: Fernando J. G. Pereira (fjp@minerva.inesc.pt)
207 minerva.inesc.pt:pub/aplic/fpted4.tar.Z
211 FPTED is a, easy to use, text editor, that allows the user
212 to do almost all of the most used features in other text
213 editors. It isn't as powerful as "vi", or "emacs", but I
214 think, it's easy to use, its runtime version is very small
215 (in disk space), and it lets you do almost everything you
216 usually do in other editors.
221 Current Release: 18.58
222 Maintainer: Joseph Arceneux
225 prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/emacs-18.58.tar.Z
226 ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu/emacs/18.58.Z.*
228 GNU Emacs is one of the most popular editors around. It's
229 very big, very powerful and extensible, and lots of people
230 use it. In a Usenet poll, it had about equal footing with
231 vi in terms of number of people using it. Gnu.emacs.help
232 and Comp.emacs are good places to look for more information
237 Editor: JOE's editor.
238 Current Release: 29 Sept 1988??
239 Maintainer: Joseph H. Allen <jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu>
242 wpi.wpi.edu:stusrc/joe.tar.Z
244 Joe is a small and easily configurable editor, with
245 wordstar bindings as default. Apparently the ideal editor
246 for users coming from the IBM PC/DOS world.
252 Maintainer: Junn Ohta <ohta@src.ricoh.co.jp>
255 utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11], as ftp/jstevie1.3.tar.Z
259 Jstevie is an improved version of Stevie 3.69 and can be
260 used to edit Japanese text encoded in either Shift JIS,
261 7-bit JIS, or EUC, as well as other 8-bit text. It also
262 features tag stack, abbreviations, and map(!)s. To edit
263 Japanese on UNIX, you should link it to the ONEW library,
264 which is a client interface to the Wnn Kanji Server. The
265 latest version of ONEW is available from etlport.etl.go.jp
268 [Sub: Eric E. Bowles <bowles@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]
272 Editor: Mutt Editor 2
273 Current Release: Unknown
274 Maintainer: Craig Durland (craig@cv.hp.com)
277 hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com:pub/pub/me2.shar.Z
278 WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL:<msdos.editor>ME_CD22.ZIP (Old MSDOS ver.)
280 HP-UX (Series 800, 700 and 300),
281 BSD Unix (Sun, Apollo, DEC, etc)
282 IBM AIX, OSF/POSIX (HP and DEC),
283 MS-DOS/PC-DOS (IBM PCs and compatibles)
284 OS/2 and Atari (TOS and MiNT).
286 ME2 is a medium-small, portable, extendable Emacs' like
287 editor that is known to compile and run on a wide flavor of
288 architechtures. Standalone, ME2 is pretty mundane - you
289 need to customize it to make full use of it. A compiled
290 language is provided for this as well as lots of example
291 programs: a C mode, paren matching, a visual towers of
292 hanoi, incremental searching, programmers calculator, mark
293 rings, multi file search (and replace) picture mode (from
294 GNU Emacs), gomoku (from GNU Emacs) and lots more. Other
295 features include undo and the ability to have concurrent
296 processes (such as make) running in a buffer (Unix only).
302 Current Release: 3.11
303 Maintainer: Daniel M. Lawrence <dan@mbds.uucp>
306 midas.mgmt.purdue.edu:dist/uemacs311/*
308 Another easy to use and small editor. Emacs based. Easily
314 Current Release: July 1992 (comp.editors postings)
315 Maintainer: Thomas Wolff (wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de)
320 Its original version is the editor that comes along with
321 Andrew S. Tanenbaum's operating system minix. This version
322 has som exchangemet over the original: enabling arbitrary
323 terminals, windows with dynamic size changes, full 8 bit
324 compatibility and support, function keys, improved user
327 Has a great deal of commands. Modeless editor.
329 This editor is a good candidate for people comming from the
335 Current Release: 1.6.30
336 Maintainer: Michael Haardt <u31b3hs@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
339 irisa.irisa.fr:News/comp.binaries.atari.st/volume16/origami
340 wuarchive.wustl.edu:usenet/comp.binaries.atari.st/volume16/origami
341 ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de:minix/beta/origami/origami.tar.Z
343 Origami is a folding editor for Atari ST's, Minix and SunOS.
348 Current Release: 1.4 (Thu Aug 13 00:27:48 GMT 1992)
349 Maintainer: Found inside the Pine package.
352 ftp.cac.washington.edu:/mail/pine/pine.4.3.tar.Z
354 Pico is originally derived from MicroEmacs 3.6 and is found
355 inside the 'Pine' mail system composer.
356 Pico is a simple, modeless, display-oriented text editor based
357 on the Pine mail system composer. Commands are displayed at
358 the bottom of the screen, and context sensitive help is provided.
359 As characters are typed they are immediately inserted into the
360 text. Editing commands are entered using control-key combinations.
362 The editor has three basic features: paragraph justification,
363 case insensitive searching, and a spelling checker.
365 Michael Seibel (mikes@cac.washington.edu) and Laurence Lundblade
366 (lgl@cac.washington.edu) has written the Pico editor.
370 Current Release: Version 2.1 (25 Nov 91 00:12:20 GMT)
371 Maintainer: Roger Nelson (rnelson@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu)
374 UNIX (SGI/IRIX, HP-UX, SunOS, AT&S/SysV, DEC/ULTRIX)
377 REDT follows a VMS/EDT text editing model and is similar to
378 the SEDT text editor by Anker Berg-Sonne. REDT is curses
379 based and should compile under any UNIX system.
381 A version for the Amiga is now available by request.
383 REDT allows you to make full use of your keyboard so you
384 can bind commands to almost any escape/control/function key
385 sequence. A full screen interactive utility is provided to
386 generate [the human readable] command key binding files.
388 REDT can be compiled with Mike Sweet's cmenu library for
389 pulldown menus, and gadgets.
391 Some of the features:
392 - Columnwise cut and paste.
393 - Cursor movement and character insertion past EOLN.
394 - Format ruler line and paragraph fill and justify.
395 - Multiple buffers (9).
398 The editor can be obtained from the maintainer via email.
399 He will eventualy setup a anonymous FTP site when SGI
400 get's on the network in a few months.
405 Current Release: Version 4.2 3-Feb-1991
406 Maintainer: Anker Berg-Sonne (72337,3211%compuserve.com@CS.RELAY.NET)
409 aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de:msdos/editors/sedt40.zip
410 aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de:msdos/mswindows/sedtwin.zip
411 dnpap.et.tudelft.nl:pub/Os2/sedt40.zoo
412 luga.latrobe.edu.au:pub/os2/editors/sedt40.zoo
413 wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/editor/sedt40pc.arc
414 wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/editor/sedt40pc.arc
416 IBM-PC MSDOS (and Windows), OS/2
417 DEC Rainbow, Atari ST
418 VAX ULTIRX, RISC ULTIRX
421 EDT editor. Not much information yet.
426 Current Release: 0.9 (24 Jul 92 03:40:19 GMT)
427 Maintainer: Joseph Gil <yogi@cs.ubc.ca>
430 cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140f.zip The full distribution: ~175K
434 The SLIM editor, a bigger brother to TERSE.
436 SLIM is a big brother of TERSE. It can do anything TERSE
437 can, and a lot more, including: "read file into buffer"
438 command, "switch to another file" command <Alt-E>, "go to
439 line number" command <Alt-G>, "set right margin" command
440 <Alt-M>, "swap cursor and mark" command <Shift-Tab>, "pump
441 block thru external filter" command <Alt-F>, "exchange
442 marked block with paste buffer" command <Keypad *>, "right
443 margin set" command <Alt-M> and word wrap, and display of
444 the hexadecimal value of the current char in the status line.
446 Many features can be easily added to SLIM by virtue of the
447 "pump block thru buffer command. Word counting, date and
448 time stamping, formatting, sorting, column summation,
449 character sets conversions are just a few examples.
450 Sophisticated users should probably get copy of a DOS port
451 of the famous UNIX 'sed' and 'awk', and harness their power
452 to enhance SLIM. The effects of the extenal filter can be
458 Current Release: Unknown
459 Maintainer: Tony Andrews <onecom!wldrlg!tony>
462 ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/*
463 nic.funet.fi:pub/minix/stevie
465 Another good vi clone.
470 Current Release: Unknown
471 Maintainer: Matt Fichtenbaum
475 ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume9/*
476 munnari.oz.au:comp.sources.unix/volume9/*
478 The best editor *ever*. :-) Commands look like line noise
479 (even more so than vi).
481 The usc.edu has perhaps the most complete collection of
482 tecos avalible. It has documentation, macros and a wealth
483 of teco implementations.
488 Current Release: 1.4 (24 Jul 92 03:40:19 GMT)
489 Maintainer: Joseph Gil <yogi@cs.ubc.ca>
492 wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>TERSE11.ZIP
493 cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140f.zip The full distribution: ~175K
494 cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/trs140a.zip An abridged distribution: ~27K
498 TERSE is a tiny (only 4096 bytes) but amazingly powerful
499 full-screen editor for files of up to 64K in length. TERSE
500 runs on all PC compatible machines. Its command keys are
501 very similar to those of the famous BRIEF editor (by
502 UnderWare Inc.). TERSE can edit both UNIX and MS-DOS style
503 text files as well as binary files. No hacker's disk is
504 complete without it. No disk, be it hard or floppy, is too
511 Maintainer: Paul Fox <pgf@cayman.com>
514 ftp.cayman.com:pub/vile/vile3.18shar.Z
516 Vile is a vi feelalike. It's based around Microemacs, but
517 modifed to look (feel) like vi. You can't really say its a
518 vi clone, because its not *that* vi-like.
