"Everthing's the same except the name". This is a re- post, just for change of thread for reasons as below. Yes, I clean forgot that there are people on our list who are on threaded mail readers ...... I posted this on the thread of "Joe editor" yesterday.
Thanks Curt for reminding me. USM Bish On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:58:31AM -0500, Debian Linux User wrote: > Thanks for this post. This editor is amazing. With the subject > line of the thread I just about missed reading it, however. You > might want to make your recommendation about including it on the > rescue disks in a separate post. > > Best regards, > Curt Daugaard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:24:16PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > > > > The "joe" editor seems to be rather popular, specially > > amongst people for whom wordstar keys have got ingrained > > in their genes. > > > > There is another editor called w3, which was introduced > > to me by some-one on this list. The URL is : > > > > http://www.sax.de/~adlibit/e3-0.7.tar.gz [82338 bytes] > > > > Have been using it for about 2 weeks now. EXCELLENT !! > > Just 4912 bytes long binary, written fully in assembly > > (nasm). Fully GPL (with source code). It is 100% Word > > Star (non-document) mode clone. Has auto-left align as > > well (remember TurboPascal 3?). > > > > It is definitely not a replacement for emacs / vi, but > > if wordstar compatibility is what you are looking for, > > this rivals "joe" any day. > > > > If an editor for rescue disks is what is you need,look > > no further. THIS IS IT. It would be difficult to find > > a smaller one with all facilites expected of an editor. > > > > USM Bish > > > > > > PS: Binary tarball with man (6080 bytes)! Private mail > > only. > >