From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:40:42 -0500
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Notepad renames files to *.txt
> Edit.com replaces tabs with spaces.
> Many other DOS editors use all of CPU time, which
> severely cuts into the distributed.net client's keyrate.
> http://www.distributed.net/
> 
> Which editor should I use?

If you are not going to use Emacs,
If you are not going to use vi (VIM),
If you are not going to use even RHIDE,
At least do yourself a favor, and use PFE32,
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned MS Write,
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned MS Notepad,
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned Boxer (spawn your compile from it),
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned Brief,
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned PC-Edit (from the PC Megazine Mega Pack),
Which is the editor I learned,
After I tried and abandoned DOS Edit,
Which is the editor I learned,
After I was forced to use a PC.
Before which I used UNIX,
Where I learned vi and Emacs.

Guess which learning effort payed off?

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com