The Word Processor Formerly Known as WordUp

(If you are interested in writing a word processor or text editor, you will find it interesting to read "The Craft of Text Editing" by Craig A. Finseth 1999 http://www.finseth.com/craft )

The "Word Up Project" has disbanded. Other "Open Source" word processor projects have taken up the gauntlet; if you know of any I miss, please let me know.

updated 2000-12-13.

Contents:

text editor reviews

[FIXME: move all this info to the http://texteditors.org/ wiki. ]
Text Editor Favorites in several categories http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TextEditor
Folding Editors Page http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/index.shtml [FIXME: read]

text editors

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/editors.html getting started with "vim" or "emacs"

Primary Goals:

Secondary Goals:

To subscribe to WordUp, e-mail majordomo@entropia.com.mx and put the following on the message body:

	subscribe wordup

extremely low priorities:

add NAC style bit encoding to "see everything" any-file viewer mode.

Implementation Ideas

Related Links

AbiWord task_help.html#AbiSource
http://www.textpad.com/
jEdit http://www.gjt.org/~sp/jedit.html ???
"The Universal Word" Multilingual word processor. http://www.wysiwyg.com supports European languages, Arabic ... Chinese ... Gujarati, Hebrew ... Nepali .... Russian ... for $49 (not including shipping) ... call 800.4UW.WORD, fax 310.575.3141 http://www.wysiwyg.com -- ad, p. 350 of 1995 Oct 10 _PC Magazine_
"Christopher Vincelette (Xavier Payne)" http://www.oswego.edu/~vincelet (does web pages for WordUp)
Lester Barrows (Ryoga) http://www.oswego.edu/~barrows/ barrows@Oswego.EDU Linux user, wants a internationalized word processor.
http://www.unicode.org has some http://charts.unicode.org/
to have a Wiki-like feel, the processor needs a command "open the file whose name is directly under the cursor". Perhaps use the "#" idea to jump right to a particular location in that file.
Extended: parse every location in the file, and change its color/underline if it looks like a filename.
a TreeEditor is a TextEditor which treat documents as hierarchies http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TreeEditor
An anti-PC rant http://theslot.com/coyote.html interesting perspective on usability, from someone who used the old SII editing system then "took a step backward" converting to a modern WYSIWYG text editor. (Move this link to http://visual.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/UserInterface ? )
Graham and Anne Toal write a text editor http://gtoal.com/software/EditorsOneOhOne

Started: 1998-02-26.
Original Author: David Cary.
Current maintainer: David Cary.

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Send comments, suggestions, bug reports to
David Cary
d.cary@ieee.org.

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