In Epsilon 2.0 (1985) for MS-DOS, you could Cntl-X Cntl-M to get a buffer that had a real, live shell in it, where you could start up background compiles and such, and still be able to edit your other buffers live. This was a miracle! (DOS could barely run a single process, with certainly no preemptive scheduling; and even if you dreamed of multi-tasking, there was a maximum of 640k of memory, with nothing virtual about it).
Epsilon Programmer's Editor
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#22I've been using Epsilon for 25+ years. It's great, and well worth the money I have spent on the updates over the past few decades. It's my go-to editor. I can get along in vanilla Emacs, but Epsilon is a lot friendlier on a Windows box.
There's not much I would change on the Windows version (better multiple monitor support might be interesting0. I would pay dear money for better MacOS support.
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#23Epsilon is great. Let me offer a whole-hearted recommendation. It's a secret weapon, an unfair advantage we have, those of us in the know. I was so happy to come upon it as a sadly ex-Symbolics-ZMacs user (and ex-MIT-TECO-Emacs user) when first confronted with a 286 system, and I have have been using it ever since. I buy a few copies every few years, typically for team members who wonder what's that magic I keep usin…
Why do you prefer it over regular Emacs? How is it better enough to make up for the much larger collection of extensions for Emacs?
The demo for me just felt like a snappier Emacs clone.
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#24I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it. Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit ( http://multieditsoftware.com/ ). I remember UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com/ ) being pretty popular too. Nowadays, whatever work I'm not doing in Visual Studio is being done in Notepad++.
Speaking of bygone editors, I still have (very) fond memories of using QEdit (later TSE (The Semware Editor)) in my DOS-centric early '90s larval hacking days.
Looks like they still sell it for $45 a pop, I don't think the website (http://www.semware.com) has changed much in the intervening 20 years though. :)
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#25Because of all the positive comments I decided to try the editor. For all of you evangalizing this editor, why do keybindings like "F9, Ctrl-X U" make sense for common tasks like undo?
Press F9, release and then quickly press ctrl-x, release and then press u. Even during my short time with emacs did I not hurt my fingers this much
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#26Been using Epsilon daily since 1989. I've been disillusioned lately that it's not been updated for quite some time.
The developer is still quite responsive though, and even though I use it less than I used to, I still use it every day.
I was hoping to see a native Mac version rather than the version that depends on X.
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#28How many licenses are still being sold? I see that the last update was in May 2006.
> 4 August 2016 New Evaluation Version of Epsilon 13.12 Available. > 19 September 2011 Epsilon 13.12 update available, compatible with OS X 10.7 Lion. Those aren't updates?
Not really. They put an eval version up which expires. They then upload a new build that pushes the expiration out. Repeat every few months.
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#29The OSX deployment not being a "verified developer" shuts down anyone in an enterprise environment. That's too bad, I wanted to try it at work.
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#30The OSX deployment not being a "verified developer" shuts down anyone in an enterprise environment. That's too bad, I wanted to try it at work.
That's interesting, and fairly dystopian — you're not allowed to run any software on your computer that isn't signed by Apple? Can you install, say, VirtualBox?