A text editor or word processing program is necessary for creating or editing text files and script files. Amiga Workbench software comes with three text editors. This chapter describes them in the following order:
Each of the Amiga editors can be used separately for editing AmigaDOS scripts and programs; ED and MEmacs can be used for creating these files. If you are comfortable with the UNIX Emacs editor, you may prefer using the MEmacs editor. If you need to edit files containing binary code or you need to edit files too large to fit into memory, use EDIT. If you are not familiar with any of the editors, we recommend that you use the ED editor.
Each editor has the basic functionality of a word processor, however, none of these editors support style formatting options, such as italics, page numbering, or different fonts. If you need these features, you can purchase third party word processing software containing such features for your Amiga.
