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Aurora vs. others (Announce)

posted by marcov, 28.05.2008, 10:15

> > Yes, I was aware that it was closed src but freeware now. And I tried it
> > back in the day (mid-90s??) and was quite impressed, but ended up using
> > TDE 4.0 (public domain) instead
>
> I'm an Aurora user for nearly 10 years now and I like it for its speed and
> easy to use GUI. Other editors like VI(M) or Emacs are probably very
> powerful too, but this power is hard to master, if you don't use it every
> day. And a complete installation of, e.g., VIM is very huge compared to
> Aurora.

On *nix and Windows(Cygwin), I use joe. Because "joe is your friend". One of the reasons is that the wordstar keybindings are familiar from Turbo Pascal, and also still supported in Delphi.

If I don't have cygwin installed, I sometimes use Delphi (7) for editing too. 10 years ago it would have been totally overweight, but it starts quite fast, faster than some of the modern shareware editors with busy splashscreens

VI(M) is something meant for people that like pain and whips.

Complete thread:

• Registering Aurora text editor - rr, 26.05.2008, 15:01 (Announce)
  • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 27.05.2008, 03:42
    • Aurora vs. others - rr, 27.05.2008, 09:43
      • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 10:15
        • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 28.05.2008, 11:34
          • Aurora vs. others - marcov, 28.05.2008, 13:20
            • Aurora vs. others - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 02:06
              • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 04.06.2008, 03:02
                • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 04.06.2008, 03:29
                  • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 00:43
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 01:07
                      • INFOPAD & Kinesics - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 03:15
                        • INFOPAD & Kinesics - Steve, 06.06.2008, 05:58
                    • INFOPAD & Kinesics - rr, 06.06.2008, 09:44