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From: micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TurboText demo
Message-ID: <micke.5688@slaka.sirius.se>
Date: 21 Mar 91 04:07:50 GMT
References: <91077.151224GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
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In article <91077.151224GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes:
>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 ?)
>
>[..]
>
>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.)

Actually, it is possible to assign macros to every key/key combination.

As an example, here is part of a definition file for Emacs keys:

KEYBOARD:
   ESCAPE                     SetMeta On
   CTRL-F                     MoveRight
   CTRL-B                     MoveLeft
   META-F                     MoveNextWord
   META-B                     MovePrevWord

The only thing that's really missing from the TurboText demo is
a proper undo, and the author (Hi, Martin!) has hinted that full
undo/redo will be available in the final version.

>The only thing TurboText offers me at the moment that CygnusEd
>doesn't have are the folds.

Hmm... I can't think of anything CygnusEd offers that TurboText
doesn't (except availability, but that'll change). I think that
Martin Taillefer has done a truly excellent job.

>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)

I'm not so sure about that. Your example, save & quit, uses
this macro:
  ExecARexxString "SaveFile; IF RC=0 THEN CloseDoc"
Approximately 50 bytes. Not too bad.

>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.

Neat. No argument here.

>      Ives Aerts           |          IBM definition SY-34378

/Mikael

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