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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How are people developing?
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Date: 18 Jul 90 13:28:27 GMT
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> green@ai.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green) writes:
>> Am I the only one... or would other people like a programmable windows
>> editor? Should we start some sort of distributed application development?

Wolfgang Strobl <strobl@gmdzi.UUCP> writes:
> I think it is a good idea to start some sort of distributed development
> of a programmable windows editor. We should form a small group
> talking about possible designs by looking at a few programmable editors.

In terms of programmability, the editor should be able to emulate (at the
minimum) vi, Emacs and WordStar.  Of course emulating 100% of Emacs would
be rather a major project, but being able to map the keyboard so that things
work as expected 90% of the time would probably be sufficient.  Personally,
I'd love a vi that had Windows mouse support, scrollbars, multiple windows
and user-selectable fonts...

Anyway, I'm interested in such a project!  Are there enough people to make
it possible to do distributed development without killing anybody with work?

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