Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:05:32 -0600 (CST)
From:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To:	"'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Takashi Toyooka wrote:
> At 16:39 1997/02/26 -0600, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> >Also, what is elvis?
> Elvis is one of several DOS ports of the UNIX editor 'vi'.  Tho' I use
> Vim, myself.  Vim is amazing.  It's the best text editor ever, IMHO. 
> Oh oh.  Let's not start an editor war.  (I said IMHO!!!)

And IMHO:

Ok, no wars, but lets talk virtues.  My favorite editor is UED, strictly a
DOS, (AFAIK), but the reason I like it is because it's simple to use, has
a wonderful cut/paste line/block, split screen mode, (you control where
the split happens), search and replace, multiple workspaces, (1-9), and
handles as much file as will fit in free memory, (gosh I hope I get a
couple of megs free under opendos);).  So every editor I've tried since
latching onto this one has been compared to it.  It'll load ANY file for
editing, doesn't care about whether it's a binary file, (used it to locate
game key strings), and prevents you from ditching if you've made any
changes.  Plus, it has wildcard file loading, both command line and in the
load file menu, and will inform you if a file already exists in memory
should you save the file you're working on under that name.

The only fault I do have with it is that because it's DOS based, even
though it formats a file with either just CR's or LF's as the newline
character, it saves files using CR/LF's.  Micro Program fixes that.

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