[ale] OS Windows text editor for Unix files

[John Mills]

ALErs -

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> Try Textedit -
> http://www.haxialsoftware.com/products/textedit/
> 
> I think that's the one that I like.  I haven't used it in so long that 
> I'm not certain it's the one that I like.

> Kevin Carstensen wrote:
> >On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:47:12 -0500, Ben Coleman <oloryn at benshome.net> wrote:
> >>John Wells wrote:
> >>>I'm looking for a free (as in speech, hopefully) text editor that can
> >>>properly read and print these files on the windows side.  JEdit is the
> >>>only free one that's done a good job recognizing the line feeds and EOLs,
> >>>but the printing is horrible.
 ...
> >>I'd suggest PFE, though it is no longer supported:
> >>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/

I've found prebuilt W32 versions of Emacs and use them for general editing 
in MsWin. I like them for context sensitivity from Ada to XML. Don't know 
where to find it (mine came with a book on SGML), but a bit of searching 
will probably find one. I don't remember if the MsWin native does 'pretty 
printing', but I think it's worth a shot.

I don't know if that would meet your needs due to emacs' infamous command 
set, but there are some advantages - like one tool does everything ...
well, almost.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu