Steve,

I use Multiedit 9 pretty much daily. I started with ME 7 when I
switched to Windows as my primary development platform, mostly because
of the excellent Brief emulation (my long time DOS editor).

I bought the ME 9 upgrade and got a manual with it. It's about 3/4"
thick and ~250 pages. About the best you can expect these days, I
think. I'm not sure if they sell any documentation beyond the User's
Manual I got with my upgrade -- I don't remember paying extra for the
manual. I just looked at the ME 7 manual and it's thicker, but also
about 250 pages and appears to contain the same range of information. I
got the same crappy little brochure with ME 8 that you did.

FWIW, I also looked at Codewright about a year ago. I didn't like it so
much, it seemed a little bloated and looked very "Visual Studio-ish"
(which might appeal to some). It also was considerably more expensive
than just upgrading Multiedit so I decided to stick with Multiedit. I
do 90% of my work with maybe a dozen embedded controller families and
Multiedit is simpler and cleaner for me. I didn't find much of anything
I'd want to do that either editor couldn't do. All in all, very similar
features.

I've also hooked Multiedit into a couple different IDE's as well, most
recently my Softools WinIDE Rabbit toolset.

If you can get a cheap upgrade to Multiedit, that's what I'd do...

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:36:17 +1300, steve@TLA.CO.NZ wrote:
> I've been using MultiEdit for many years but the last time I did any
> semi-
> serious programming for it was in the DOS version so it's back to
> square one. I hate learning a new language without some form of
> printed reference and when I upgraded to ME 8 "with printed manual",
> all I got was a 90 page brochure.  The DOS manuals were a couple of
> inches thick.
>
> Does anyone have ME 9 and if so, is the printed documentation (that
> they charge US$60 for) of any use ?
>
> The other option is to drop ME and learn Codewright. They used to
> compete head-on. Is that still the case ? Could I reasonably expect to
> do the same things in CW as I do in ME or has it been infected with
> the
> Visual anything bloat bug ?
> Does CW have real manuals ?
>
> The reason for restricting my choices is that Codewright seems to be
> the built in editor in a few IDEs that I use and can be integrated
> into
> others (as can ME). The same can't be said for vi.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve.

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