New to the PC

Hello All: I've just got myself a windows machine. My Amiga has had problems (Simm sockets are messed up), so I was hoping someone would know of a good editor to use on Win95 (preferably free, as I hope to get my Amiga back up soon). Thanks to any and all that help! Regards, David C. P.S. - Linux isn't an option, as my Bios is flooky on the pc.

Use EditPlus http://www.editplus.com It is shareware, but the demo is fully functional.

Try the "free" editor at http://www.notetab.com/ especially nice if you are doing web pages....

Hi, I use shareware GWD Text Editor (http://www.gwdsoft.com/)for REBOL editing. I made a long list of predefined REBOL words, so it has a crude form of syntax highlighting. But unfortunately it can't highlight or escape {multiline { REBOL ^} strings} like this one correctly. It uses Microsoft's MFC library so it's startup time is quite high. Other nice editor I have seen is Edit+ (http://www.editplus.com/). And, please, never use Windows Notepad. There are replacements that are more powerful and shorter than Notepad itself, like Metapad (http://welcome.to/metapad/) But, I couldn't get really used to Windows or Linux editors, I still miss the old Amiga CygnusEd and GoldEd :-( hope this helps, -- Michal Kracik [targhan--amigaonline--net] wrote:

Not to start a holy war, but I am partial to VIM myself www.vim.org

hi, I've heard of one called synedit, its free and I think does rebol syntax hilighting. I just looked, and found ftp://zdftp.zdnet.com/pub/private/sWlIB/computer_programming/programmer_s_utilities/synedit.zip At 10/17/00 2:07:00 PM, you wrote:

Hi, Michal, I'll try the varius editors. However, like I said before.. I'm using this pc until I can get my Miggy fixed. I don't think I can put up with Outlook for very long, and I'll probably drop to my old 1200 on occation anyway. MD-2 is far cleaner than Outlook. Can't wait to see who does a real emailer in REBOL! And, Thanks again. Not just to you, but to everyone who replied! regards, David C.

Hi David, I use SynEdit! I found it on zdnet.com and it is free!! Michael

> I was hoping someone would know of a good editor to use on Win95

Thanks to all, I've at least temporarily picked "syned." I really hope to have my Amiga back up soon, so I can use GoldED Studio again. Now, I can only hope the bug that keeps R/View from launching apps accross the internet on the Amiga is fixed soon ;o) Thanks again for all of the replies!!

Dave, I'm using REBOL/View 0.10.34.1.1 on my home Amiga and it doesn't have any problems launching apps across the Internet. What kind of problem is it? -Bo On 17-Oct-2000/22:49:36-4:00, [targhan--amigaonline--net] wrote:

>Thanks to all, > >I've at least temporarily picked "syned." I really hope to have my Amiga >back up soon, so I can use GoldED Studio again. > >Now, I can only hope the bug that keeps R/View from launching apps accross >the internet on the Amiga is fixed soon ;o) > >Thanks again for all of the replies!! >

Bo: Since my *rea* Amiga just died on me, I'll have to download View on this 1200 to see if I can reproduce the problem. I know I didn't have any problem launching local scripts from the View-Browser, however. Will R/View even run on a bone-crushing, AGA-Multiscan, Chip-mem-using monstrosity? Thanks, Dave

Dave, As long as your bone-crushing, AGA-Multiscan, chip-mem-using monstrosity has about 6-7MB of free RAM, you should be able to run just fine. Also, you may want to run REBOL/View on Workbench with autoscroll turned on so you can use a screen larger than 640x480. One of our test machines here is a plain-Jane A4000 with the only addition being an additional 12MB of RAM (16MB Fast, 2MB Chip). It works fine there. -Bo On 18-Oct-2000/10:55:16-8:00, [targhan--amigaonline--net] wrote:

>Bo: >Since my *rea* Amiga just died on me, I'll have to download View on >> -Bo >>

Bo: That's great! As this 1200 has about 32M fast and 2M chip, it would be close to the one you guys used. This particular 1200 has os3.5 running, so I hope that isn't a problem. I was going to launch it on it's own screen, but I'll try it, as you said, on WB with autoscroll *on*. Thanks much for the help; can't wait to get all my machines "Reboling". Regards, Dave

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:31:01 +0200 From: Fantam <[Fantam--mailandnews--com]> To: "[targhan--amigaonline--net]" <[list--rebol--com]> Subject: Re: [REBOL] New to the PC I use Textpad (shareware). It does syntax highlighting for Rebol (you have to install a syntax plug-in someone created and posted on this list a while ago). You can d/l it at http://www.textpad.com/