DOS-like text editors

[fmccormick at videotron.ca]

----- Original Message -----From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:13 pmSubject: Re: DOS-like text editorsTo: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>> On 5/13/06, Frank McCormick  wrote:> > > On Sat, 13 May 2006 02:33:06 +0100> > Liam Proven  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.> > I tried to run FTE, installing it with> > sudo apt-get fte> > ...which appeared to go through normally. However, the program does> not run, complaining that no FTP binary could be found. I > googled for> the error message; nothing. Perhaps even the console-mode version> requires X.11?>    There are several packages you have to install.do : sudo apt-cache search fte

---Frank McCormick---
------Montreal--------
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