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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Programmer's Editor
Message-ID: <4699@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 17:17:05 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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Bartholomew_Siemens@mindlink.UUCP (Bartholomew Siemens) writes:

>I'm looking for some information about a new editor (last six months or so)
>called Sage Programmer's Editor. Right now I am using a registered version of
>Qedit--good shareware editor, but I need something more. I've played with
>Brief--briefly--and was planning on getting that until I heard about Sage.
>        What I require is some of the docs on what makes this editor worth
>three hundred and fifty some odd dollars. I'm assuming it has regular
>expressing search and replacement and all the other regular goodies. What is
>the file limit? How many windows can I have on screen at one time? Is there a
>memory limit?
>Please email, and I will summarize.


Save your $350.  I too was interested in a better programmer's editor and
decided to look at the Sage Professional Editor.  Since Sage had an
exhibit at Software Development '91, I had the opportunity to play around
with the editor (version 1.1) extensively.  

In a period of about 25 minutes I was about to break the editor in about
eight different, major, ways.  The Sage technical guy who was looking over 
my shoulder kept making comments like "oops, there's another one" every 
time the editor did something strange.  He openly admitted they were bugs.

The editor has mouse support, which is a nice concept, but the Sage
implementation left a little to be desired.  Since it's a character
oriented editor, the scroll and select boxes are only one character in
size, and trying to click on them with the mouse was exasperating at
best.

Since I spend about 90% of my time in the editor when I'm writing software,
I can't afford to use an editor this buggy.  Perhaps I'll wait for version
2.0 or 3.0 before I consider it again.



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