CLI based text editor for Atari (not emacs)

[LinkoVitch]

Hi,

Firing up my TT for some development action, and I am just short of an editor for crafting my source with. I use vim a fair amount in my job, and ideally would like something along those lines, well not emacs Nano/Pico would even do.

 

I have found mention of STEVIE which sounds perfect, but have not been able to find a binary of it anywhere!

 

Ideally I want to be able to call the editor from within a shell and not have to do any GEM based mouse waving if at all possible. If it could launch shell commands, that would be super!

 

I have tried FreeMiNT and after crashing it twice with very little effort am really not wanting anything MiNT dependant preferably.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Sub(Function(:))]

See if this is any help. there is a link that leads to some links for stevie.

looks like you have to compile the binary yourself

 

OK you'd rather not look at emacs, but there is a uemacs on the ST developer disks from atari.

 

Also I seem to remember there were some text mode editors on some of the page 6/new atari user pd library disks.

[Sub(Function(:))]

try disk ST52 - Programmers Editors

[Christos]

If you install MiNT there's a port of vim for it. I know how cli editors are a favourite but I personally prefer QED for that work, which is gem. I never had any problems with MiNT, but I installed through Easymint.

 

I am not quite sure whether vim will run under TOS though. It might be worth a try..

Edited October 4, 2010 by Christos

[krupkaj]

There is a port of pico for SpareMiNT (it is in pine package) or you can try jed.

 

But I also like QED as Christos wrote.

[simonsunnyboy]

Qed is certainly the best bet for any Atari ST with more than 1MB of RAM.

[Christos]

And out of topic, anyone knows how to have syntax highlighting on QED?

[krupkaj]

And out of topic, anyone knows how to have syntax highlighting on QED?

You need version 5.0.5 (I am not sure it works with earlier). In the folder syntax are definitions of highliting and in Option->syntax... menu you can switch the highliter on.

Edited October 18, 2010 by krupkaj