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  1. Re: [HACKERS] Crisp text editor (probably OT)

    Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee> — 1999-08-10T22:37:14Z

    Bruce Momjian wrote:
    > 
    > I have been using MicroEmacs for 9 years, and have been looking for a
    > nice X editor.  I looked at Xemacs(too complex to configure), and some
    > others, but they did not have the required features. 
    
    Have you checked out CodeCrusader ?
    (at http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc )
    
    > I like a powerful
    > search/replace, tags support, macro support, as-you-type syntax
    > colorization with user-definable languages,
    
    Seems to still miss python colorization :(
    
    > keyboard recording/playback, etc.
    >
    > I found that the commercial Crisp editor from
    > http://www.vital.com/crisp.htm does exactly what I want.  It has the
    > perfect balance between power and lean-ness I am looking for.  It is
    > only $75 for non-commerical use until the end of August for PC's, Linux,
    > *BSD's.   Support is $100/year.
    > 
    > It is being actively developed by someone in England.  I have found a
    > few bugs, and they are working on them now.
    > 
    > The license manager sounds very strict for an editor.  For BSDI, it
    > locks to the BSDI host license id, not the CPU id, which pre-Pentium
    > III's don't have anyway.  Not sure how the lock a MS Windows PC or
    > Linux.
    
    Does the non-commercial version also have a lock against commercial use
    ?
    
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    Hannu