The Hessling Editor - THE

It is in fink. I suggest you install it that way, since it has a pile of dependencies.

Well, I installed it.

I have to say, that is the worst editor, next to emacs, I have seen. In fact, it might even be worse than emacs.

I'm afraid I can't just give you the binary because it dynamically links to a bunch of other stuff. Everything that starts with "sw" is a dependency in fink.

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zsh-% otool -L /sw/bin/the-xcurses
/sw/bin/the-xcurses:
/sw/lib/libXCurses.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/sw/lib/libregina.0.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.5.1)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.7.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.2.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.0.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.3.0, current version 6.3.0)
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 6.4.0, current version 6.4.0)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
zsh-% otool -L /sw/bin/the-ncurses
/sw/bin/the-ncurses:
/sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
/sw/lib/libregina.0.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.5.1)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
zsh-%
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Thank you very much, Bill. I appreciate the effort.

I believe there is a version that does not use
X11. That would reduce the number of dependencies.

That is the ncurses one (see above).

Many, many years of using Xedit and ISPF/PDF for my
text editor have made that editor second
nature for me.

These things get hard-wired. No one understands how I could possibly like vi.

When I try using VI and its ilk it feels like I am
typing with mittens on.

The choice of editors is rarely a matter of checking
off features. It is more like matching your
mindset.

I hope you realize I was trying to be funny.

I had found a web site that discusses a very large
number of editors and summarizes their features. One
basic breakdown was whether the editor was orthogonal
or not. I have no idea what they meant by that.

Maybe they like the corners to have 90 degree angles, or no overlapping feature sets between editors?

I just tried to find that site with no joy..

Thanks again for your efforts.

Roberto

fink is fairly easy to install, and then you can have both.

If you type

the

in a Terminal.app window, it will start the ncurses (x11-independent one) automatically. If you type

the

in an xterm or similar, it will start the xcurses one automatically. You can over-ride this behavior
by typing, eg,

the-xcurses

in a Terminal.app window, and it will start the x-version.

If you want, take a look at my quickie guide to getting fink, etc, up and working.