Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Mr M S Aitchison <physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
cc: openDos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: EDIT
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:

> 
> 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.

Double ditto.

> 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.

Ala boxer.

> 4. (my pet peeve) I prefer text searches to default to case-insensitive

Ditto.

> 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).

Some 32bit ASM recoding would fix this.  :o)  Any takers?  And no
- I'm not volunteering.  :o)

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