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- From: apang@nightmare.winternet.com (Anthony Pang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CygnusED 3.5 buggy???
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 06:50:22 GMT
- Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
- Message-ID: <4c807e$cqd@blackice.winternet.com>
- References: <Gary_Coleman.4dzz@pccc.mlnet.com> <0099B9BE.E28AA1C5@netins.net>
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- In article <0099B9BE.E28AA1C5@netins.net>, <tempest@netins.net> wrote:
- >Nope.. I have used Ced for 6+ Years or so.. As soon as I went from the old
- >cool/reliable ced 2.12 to the new 3.5 I was upset with the replacement of the
- >old requester with the crap asl one.. I thought I could live with it in
- >time so I started using it anyways.. Didn't take long before my source was
- >getting clipped and pasted as I am typing.. it would take chuncks of a line,
- >maybe 5-10 characters long and paste it so many lines up or down over
- >that line.. completely scrambling the text/source.. This happens as I am
- >typing normally (nothing speical at all!).. This is a major bug in 3.5
- >which makes it useless to me as a programmer, as you can imagine..
- >Programming is hard enough without the editor scrambling your code.
-
- Is it possible that something in your s:ceddefaults and/or s:cedmacros caused
- this (ie an old version)? I have never encountered the problem you've
- described, and I've being using 3.5 for C/assembler programming and general
- editing since it was released. I've never found a reason to go back to 2.12.
-
- >So I went back to 2.12 and have used it every since.. I am much happier with
- >2.12.. I see no advantage what-so-ever to running the new one. It has bugs,
- >has a crap requester, different commands, and nothing really new to make it
- >better to use over the old one.
-
- As pointed out, you can use file requester patchers to get around asl.library.
- And AFAI, the only common command that got changed was block insertion -- easy
- to workaround with a macro.
-
- Hmm...for new stuff, how about (to name a few):
- * standard Amiga clipboard support
- * localization
- * search & replace history (scroll via cursor keys)
- * macro editor
- * max characters per line increased from 1024 to 4000
- * binary and hex value input for numeric requesters, eg "Enter ascii value"
- * more ARexx commands
-