Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!brazil.psych.purdue.edu!zhou From: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Text Editors Message-ID: <11587@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 28 Nov 90 16:44:54 GMT References: <1990Nov27.201109.1507@wpi.WPI.EDU> <25605@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@j.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: Purdue University Lines: 10 Writing an editor is not really an easy task. If you really want to write an editor buy yourself, I suggest that you get an editor toolbox so that basic screen, memory and file control are just a few rountine calls away and you can concentrate on User interface and specific functions you want to implement. As an alternative, one could get Turbo Pascal 3.0 as a text editor. It is very compact, requires very little memory yet very powerful. I've long upgraded my 3.0 to 5.5, but since my hard disk is not fast enough and it takes time to load 5.5, sometimes I use 3.0 as a mere editor if I want to write something really short.