Thursday March 29, 2007 One of the greatest programming editors returns to Solaris x86
As the boy wonder once said, "Holy $#!T Batman, one of the greatest programming editors is back on Solaris x86!".
For 5+ years I have used a copy of Visual SlickEdit v5, because slickedit wouldn't sell me the last version, 6, that was sold for Solaris on x86. The current version was 10 or 11, but the new version is called 2007. I have been hounding the company to bring this back for several years, and it's back!
There was some keyboard problems in the previous versions when used on recent builds of nevada, so hopefully this solves that problem (the SPARC version was much better behaved, but due to abundance of x86 hardware, I've shy'd away from getting the SPARC version).
I just downloaded and will install this trial. They even have the product listed on the buy it now. Yeah, some will say $400 isn't cheap for an editor...but it's worth every penny for me.
This editor will emulate vi, emacs, and even brief (I use this emulation myself). There's about a dozen different emulations. Clark Maurer worked at IBM and wrote a famous editor called "E", which was the roots to SlickEdit, which grew into Visual SlickEdit.
Trial Download from SlickEdit, click on image.
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However, what's the $400 advantage of "Visual SlickEdit" over Gnu Emacs with e.g. the Motif toolkit?
Posted by Volker A. Brandt on March 29, 2007 at 07:49 AM PDT #
Posted by S Denny on April 03, 2007 at 12:53 PM PDT #
Posted by Alan DuBoff on April 03, 2007 at 01:56 PM PDT #