From: afn03257 AT freenet2 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P Hudson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Text editors Date: 18 Jan 1997 22:45:36 GMT Lines: 57 Message-ID: <5brjqg$lkm@huron.eel.ufl.edu> References: <32D332BD DOT AAD AT dmv DOT com> <32D4884E DOT 3AD3 AT novia DOT net> <5b64bj$lbc AT whitbeck DOT ncl DOT ac DOT uk> <32D751E1 DOT 27 AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl> <32DA99CC DOT 29BE AT unm DOT edu> <32DE569B DOT 6513 AT heaven DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet2.afn.org NNTP-Posting-User: afn03257 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp God 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.