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From: jrs@Unify.com (John R. Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Sage Professional editor
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.081950@Unify.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:19:50 GMT
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In article <4684@gumby.Altos.COM>, jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
writes:
> 
> Has anyone used the Sage Professional Editor (advertised in Dr.
Dobbs)?
> I'd be interested in your opinions, especially how it compares with
other
> editors such as vi and brief.

I used the first version of this software last year.  Overall, I really
liked it
because we had people using all different editors, like brief, epsilon,
and vi.
The nice part about SPE is that you can switch it to emulate any of
these editors
with a keystroke.  I used the vi emulation the most.  It had some bugs,
but since
the source for the emulation is provided with SPE, I fixed most of them
myself and
sent the code to Sage.  Most editing operations are fast, but sometimes
I felt like
the interpretor for the emulator slowed certain operatoins down.  
Also, at the time, they didn't have any tags facility.  

Good luck

John