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From: GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: TurboText demo
Message-ID: <91077.151224GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 18 Mar 91 15:11:24 GMT
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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I had a look at the TurboText demo recently and have a couple
remarks. I hope the author reads this. (can someone put this
to his attention ?)

Ever runned TurboText together with SnoopDos ? Why on earth
are you locking the current directory with ever keypress ???

Pleeeaaaaassssseeee make it more compatible with CygnusEd. It's
a very strong competitor and a lot of people will miss it's
features (assigning macros to every key/key combination you wish etc.)
The only thing TurboText offers me at the moment that CygnusEd
doesn't have are the folds. It's something I allways wanted but
I'm not going to change for just this feature.
(actually... this feature and the binary file editor... and...
sigh, guess I'll end up using two editors)

Try to implement more functions and keep it small. I know I'm
asking much but having to rely on a macro for a save and quit
command is stupid. (Can be written shorter in C or Assembler)

Implement a version of Xedit's all command. This is the most
powerful command I've ever used in an editor. It lets you
choose all the lines containing a certain pattern in a file
and then all the changes you make only affect the selected
lines. I've tried to do this in rexx with CygnusEd but it was
too slow to work with. You can even make it more powerful
and let you choose the context of the lines containing
that pattern (i.e. the 3 lines before the one with the pattern)

In general: keep up the good work. You have a very strong
competitor but there are some big plusses for TurboText.
I think it would be very good for the Amiga in general to have
two very good competing editors.
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