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From: ahby@uiunix.UI.ORG (Shane McCarron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <176@uiunix.UI.ORG>
Date: 29 Oct 89 17:54:03 GMT
References: <88714@pyramid.pyramid.com> <126813@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: ahby@uiunix.UI.ORG (Shane P. McCarron)
Organization: UNIX International
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In article <126813@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro) writes:

>I use Vantage as well, almost exclusively.  It is wonderful to jump in
>and out of it while in another application, like Red Ryder (was that a 
>plug :-)  It is a great editor, and as long as the user recognized that
>it is not a word or document processor, they will be well served.  The
>macro capabilities are nice, but underpowered.

My only problem with Vantage is that it becomes abysmally slow with
large documents.  If you have a several thousand line text document,
you are in for some surprises when you try to scroll, select text,
move by pages.  Any of the normal things that you would do in a text
editor.

Don't get me wrong - I use Vantage every day, and think it is great.
Just don't expect it to solve all of your problems - it's not entirely
perfect.
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