Rich Greenberg's comment carries weight; the altnative editors are often not available. But I very much prefer them. As it happens, I have THE in a ready-to-run form for
Windows (via CYGWIN) PC Linux mainframe Linux FreeBSD at least, and possibly others. The tarball is non-intrusive, non-disruptive, and trivially removed (in case you need to). There is a pre-req, that for Regina, since THE uses Rexx for scripting (and Regina happens to be the interp I chose). If you want it, drop me a private note. -- R; <><