DOS-like text editors

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sat, 13 May 2006 02:33:06 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> For years now, I've been looking for a command-line, text console-mode
> text editor for Linux that looked and worked something like MS-DOS
> Edit or any other CUA program.
> 
> But doing some digging and Googling and hunting around, I've found two
> pretty decent CUA menu-driven editors: ww and setedit.

> 
> However, SETEdit seems like the business. It's perhaps a tiny bit
> overcomplicated, but it does pretty much everything you could ask,
> from multifile editing and syntax highlighting and so on to a simple,
> easy-to-use menu-driven interface.


  I know that feeling - what I found and settled on (it's in the Ubuntu repositories) 
  is FTE, runs from X, a console or a shell. Syntax highlighting, drop-down menues CUA compatible
  everything I want or need.


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Cheers

Frank

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