Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/19/00:02:09
God <God AT heaven DOT com> wrote:
>Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
>What gets my goat is the startup with *.txt.
>I have practically no files called *.txt.
>Can't remember the time I last saw a file called *.txt.
>It should start up with *.* forgawssakes.
You call yourself a programmer and you haven't figured out how to patch
this yet? Look at QBASIC.EXE under DOSSHELL using F9 or even better a
binary editor. Scroll down to around 2dc70h bytes and notice in plain
day the *.TXT in the ascii column. Edit it over too *.* followed by
2 ascii NULL characters. Save and run edit.
>I often grep across files ( have more than one open, and would like to
>find a word without going to each file and pressing Find)
>or having find and replace work globally or after the cursor etc etc.
>take a look at Rhide's possibilities and see what Edit really misses.
>Edit Finds, and having found, can Replace, and that's about it.
Well, gee, doesn't that sort of fit under your only complaint so far,
it isn't multi-file? You can open up a new file and press f3 to find the
items on that file or continue the replace.
>Come on ..
>Edit has the exact minimum a text editor needs to function, and not an
>ounce more
Considering the alternative, EDLIN, I have to say you are DEAD wrong.
EDIT is an easy interface to text files, plain and simple. It ws based on
the Quick Editor [if you ever used QuickBasic, QuickPascal, QuickC, or
Quickasm you'll remember it] Edit's primary purpose was for BAtch file
editing and it is part of the QBASIC executable, along with HELP.
>- typically Microsoft. There are dozens of Turbo-Vision lookalike
>editors on SimTel with exactly the same looks, functionality plus that
>little extra that drives MS-Edit back in the dirt where it belongs.
Excause me? But have you looked at when TV was designed? Have you looked
at editors made before it? Hmm, what's that? EDIT isn't so bad compared
to them? What's that, Unlike TV editors, Edit still runs on an 8086?
Silly me, MS was just being lazy. Stop smoking the filter.
>Yikes, the TDE, Qedit, Boxer, Aurora and lots of others.
>I cannot fathom why *anybody* with access to e.g Rhide would even want
>to use MS-Edit for anything except character-building.
Let's see, EDIT doesn't require any set-up, won't accidentally try to
compile your text file when you hit the wrong menu, oh, I think I can
see a few reasons why. Generally, I prefer WP51 though, myself because of
EDIT's file size limitation. RHIDE has a few bugs too that are being
worked through as it goes, EDIT isn't too buggy by my recollection.
In fact RHIDE just the other day, and again this morning seems to
automatically shift the screen and then refuse to unshift it.
I've ben trying to determine if I set it up wrong or not for the
moment.
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