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- From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?
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- Message-ID: <mykes.09pq@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
- References: <1992Jul20.052824.29189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <BrpFqH.8MD@DMI.USherb.CA> <mykes.09ny@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> <BrrB07.7Bu@DMI.USherb.CA>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:44:49 PST
- Organization: Amiga makes it possible
- Lines: 59
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- In article <BrrB07.7Bu@DMI.USherb.CA> vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT) writes:
- > -> Check out the TurboText demo on the fish disks (in the 400's).
- > -> Once you try it, you will buy it :)
- >
- > TurboText is very powerful, but I don't like it's interface. Or should
- > I say I don't like the way it manages multiple text loaded in memory. I prefer
- > the way CED splits it's only window in several parts stacked vertically...
- >
-
- On the other hand, TurboText has the best implementation of ARexx of ANY
- Amiga program ever. It simply uses the Amiga GUI (workbench and intuition)
- as well as I could wish for. Whatever you find lacking in TurboText is
- easy to fix with a few lines of ARexx, except for Undo and Redo. I do
- not like the way CED splits it's only window in several parts, nor do I
- like the way two CEDs invoked at the same time get confused about hot
- key activation. Nor do I like the limitation of only 10 files loaded
- at once. I also find that CED is unusable as my e-mail/news posting
- editor because of the 10 file limitation and hotkey confusion. I also
- don't like the lack of support it has gotten from its publisher (no
- release in 2 years). CED doesn't support the clipboard, either, so
- conclip doesn't integrate.
-
- > TurboText doesn't have unlimited Undo & Redo yet either.
- >
-
- I miss this feature the most, from CED. But TurboText also confuses
- me by letting me load the same file twice without warning me (I can
- fix that with ARexx, though). Just for fun, I will describe my workbench
- setup and how nifty TurboText fits in:
-
- I use monocrhome superhires, which is very fast, and a lot better looking
- than I imagined before trying it. My WShell is about 1/2 the screen tall
- and 800 pixels wide, centered at the bottom of the screen. I keep my
- project (source code) drawer left out on the workbench in the lower
- right corner of the screen, to the right of the CLI window. I snapshotted
- it (sp?) so it shows me by name and icons only, so I see just the text
- files. It is very thin, and only shows me name and file size, going from
- top to bottom of screen along right edge. I can double click the file
- I want to edit, and TT opens its window perfectly above my CLI window.
- I can drag a name from the drawer window into the AppWindow (every
- TT window is one) and load the file that way, too. It is very nice to
- have a dynamic LS on the screen, as well as a 30 row 100 column editor
- window at the same time... :)
-
- All I can do is recommend that anyone interested in an editor go and
- FTP (or whatever) the TurboText demo from the fish disks. It's FREE.
-
-
- > Marc
- >
- >
-
- --
- Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
- Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
- Mike Schwartz (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
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