Ah, yes editors, many thoughts come to mind. I agree with the EMACS (I have
to use UMACS for the OS9 type stuff I do). Call be old fashioned, but I do
like the Wordstar type keyboard commands (CTRL KB - CTRL KK CTRL KY, are
nothing like old friends), there is too much of that mouse stuff involved in
todays editors (Give me Nortons editor anyday!). A simple question, how much
time is waisted with the point and click drag and drop? When all you need to
do is type in text? (Please excuse me, as I have not given note to
Cangy(Spelling?) characters etc.)

I must say that windows seems to force the creator into using that mouse, I
do like the syntax high lighting and that sort of thing (Brief did that, as
does the editor in HI TECH C ,and the old Borland IDE (Pre Version 4)!), and
yes Codewright is a darn good semi intergrated type editor, but so it should
be: it sells for around $690 Aust! (Nasty little problem with automatic
braces and(;;) when you type "for" in C.

But we must all agree in, editors have come along way since the old DOS
edlin!!!!!!

But alas: the more we want, the more an editor does, the less we think.



Dennis


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Dennis Plunkett: Embedded Hardware, Software design
NEC Australia DRMASS
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ph 03 9264-3867

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