Date   : Fri, 16 Jun 1989 19:24:33 GMT
From   : zephyr!midas!copper!michaelk@uunet.uu.net (Michael D. Kersenbrock)
Subject: What are recommended programming editors for cp/m

The Mince (Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs) Editor or one of it's later
incarnations is a decent CP/M-80 editor (if you are of the EMACS
persuasion).  It edits files up to a 256K or so by virtualizing the
workspace using a swap-file.  Runs particularly fast when you put that
swap file into a RAMdisk as I did (I also hacked the swapfile's initiation
so that only the header sector would be there to begin with, and the swap
file would grow only as needed).

One of the nice things about EMACS-style editors is that they are
available in one form or another on just about any machine or O/S, so
if you use multiple machines, being a EMACS-style user can be helpful.

I still have a *very* nicely packaged 3-ring folder containing the disks
and documation to the "MrEdit" editor.  They initially tried to sell it
for a couple or three hundred dollars, then dropped the price
substantially before they exited the scene.  Anyway, if you find one of
those, it looks pretty good from the documentation (I never actually used
it much).  So, despite the dumb name, the product looked pretty decent.

One last comment.  The Mince editor only allows two screen windows (max)
at a time.  As with most non P.D. CP/M-80 S/W nowdays, just where you
get any of these things is left as an exercise for the user.....the best
editor may be "whatever you can find".... :-)


-- 
Mike Kersenbrock
Tektronix Microprocessor Development Products
michaelk@copper.MDP.TEK.COM
Aloha, Oregon