Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:05:32 -0600 (CST) From: "Colin W. Glenn" To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970226190500.30e79f3a@pop.verisim.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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.