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- From: ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: What do you want in a simple editor?
- Message-ID: <862@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 14:41:09 GMT
- References: <861@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> <mxynjgh.messina@netcom.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: ICL, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 4SN, UK
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- messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
-
- >>This is why for example I choose to implement wordstar commands.
-
- >Quite honestly - how many DOS users know Wordstar commands? Only those
- >who have been using PCs when Wordstar was still alive, that is, a
- >negligable minority.
-
- Well... I am amongst that minority :-)
- In fact editors like borland turboXXX used wordstar commands.
- Even Qedit uses wordstart command (although you can do most of it with pull
- down menus). I thought that wordstar commands were pretty standard amongst
- ms/dos users.
-
-
- >>Now, before I release it to the net my question is : what would you need from
- >>an editor if you where a beginner in unix and came from a dos background?
-
- >QEdit. Since it's not there and I suppose it would be rather hard to
- >implement it's full functionality without making it ridiculously
- >difficult to use, I settle now for mg for small stuff (letters, small
- >files) and vi for bigger stuff.
-
- Agreed, Qedit is the editor I use under ms/dos and I find it really cool.
- Un fortunatley there are features that are not very easy to implement
- such as multiple windows and pull down menus.
-
- >>What do you think of micro-emacs word wrap (i.e insert a carriage return when
- >>befor the last word at the end of line)? Do you think it's convenient or would
- >>you prefer a full word-wrap?
-
- >Give either an option of hard or soft return if you can, but hard MUST
- >be there.
-
- It is, and I'm not sure if I will implement a soft one (i.e when you
- insert a word on a justified line it might have to redraw the full
- paragraph to make it justified again).
- Soft word wrap, remembering paragraphs format (margin, indentation),
- having rulers, multi-columns etc... are definitely word processor
- features, not editor.
-
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- Philippe GOUJARD Email : ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk
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