Date:	Fri, 02 May 1997 14:05:16 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: EDIT (Was: Re: A few FS notions)
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<21169FE764B@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

Hi,

> >         2) The EDIT program is very slow [on my 386] and doesn't let
> >            me highlight from the keyboard. How about a nice, simple
> >            text-mode based editor instead of a Windows GUI
> >            imitation without the power of the Windows GUI.

while I have made the same experiences, one can still disable the 
NewUI by changing the setting in the OPENDOS.INI/NWDOS.INI file -
globally, or in the [EDITOR] group.  This makes EDIT somewhat 
faster...

EDIT accepts the old WordStar-hotkeys (same as Borland IDEs). 
Block marking can easily be done by for example:

<Ctrl>+<K>-<B> Start Block 
<Ctrl>+<K>-<K> End End 
<Ctrl>+<K>-<C> Copy Block
<Ctrl>+<K>-<V> Move Block
<Ctrl>+<K>-<W> Write Block
<Ctrl>+<K>-<R> Read Block

Novell's/Caldera's EDIT can manage files greater 64KB, as long as 
there is enough swap space on the drive (MS-DOS EDIT before MS-DOS 7 
cannot handle larger files).  Beware of writing very large files back 
to disk if there is not enough space for the .BAK file.  In some 
situations, some versions of Novell's EDIT truncated the original 
file without displaying an error message.  So, your changes might 
have gone lost.  What's more dangerous:  If you edit the file again 
without notifying this problem and write it back to disk, your backup 
will also have got lost!!!  Apparently, a partial fix for this was 
with the latest updates to Novell DOS, and I think, the patch is not 
yet included in OpenDOS.

Of course there are better editors, such as my favorits QEDIT and TSE.

Bye,

 Matthias
 

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