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Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:23:40 -0700 strider7 AT unm DOT edu writes:
> >Elliott Oti wrote:
> >>
> >> Why I don't like Edit:
> >> * Only one file open at a time.
> Live with it.  I like to concentrate on one thing at once anyway :)

It's a headache when copying pieces of code between files, projects etc.
Besides, i almost never have only one file open; on average
I have about 3 files open. *.c files, *h files, docs, etc.
Can't remember the last time i wrote a 1-file proggy.
 
> >> * No syntax highlighting
> >> * Really dumb file picker
> How often do you really have to look through a list of files when you
> don't know what you're going for?

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.
 
> >> * Lacks basic grepping & find&replace abilities.
> What's wrong with find?  Finds what you want, with or without case
> matching.
> On the same note, find&replace is just as good.

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.
 
> I _WISH_ people would learn to use a program before flaming it.  Edit's
> good, _DESPITE_ the fact that M$ made it.

Come on .. 
Edit has the exact minimum a text editor needs to function, and not an
ounce more 
- 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.
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.

Which is pretty noble, actually.

Elliott