Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 15:32:00 +1200
From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject: Re: EDIT
To: openDos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id: <199705050332.PAA21882@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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I must say I respect EDIT as an editor - it is pretty "safe" with
non-text files (or those with newlines instead of CRLF pairs) and large
files.  I like the block mark and move ('cuase I like Borland's old
IDE's, I guess). I don't find it too slow (might be my setup), but the
most common complaints I hear are:

1. MS's method of marking text would be nice to have.
2. Redefining characters for the mouse causes problems in OS/2 (solid hang in Warp 4).
3. It would be nice to have word wrap, store recent filenames, user-definable
   function keys/macros, and some of those moderately useful things other editors
   have.
4. (my pet peeve) I prefer text searches to default to case-insensitive
5. The program is large for what it actually does (consider what else you can get
   onto a rescue floppy if over 100k is taken up with an editor).

Mark.