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From: kbb@linus.UUCP (Kenneth B. Bass)
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Subject: Summary of MSDOS text editors
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 14:49:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 14:49:18 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 00:49:56 EST
Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA
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First, I would like to thank those of you who replied
to my request. Although I have not had time to examine
any of the editors in detail, I will give a summary of
the replies that I received.

For those who missed my original request, I will restate it.
I am looking for a simple, but versatile text editor - as
opposed to a word processor - to run under MSDOS. Our main
need is for editing source files, where we don't need any of
the 'nice' functions that most word processors have.

Many different editors were suggested to me. Of those, two were
by far most popular. The first was the IBM Personal Editor. 
Those who recommended it seemed most impressed with its price -
about $100.

The other popular editor was Edix, by Emerging Technology
in Boulder, Co. Although much more expensive (about $400), Edix
seems to provide many of those features that you always thought
would be nice to have. Some of these include (up to 4) windows,
easy redefinition of keys - including function keys, and also
user defined macros.

Many others were recommended, but most of these were associated
with a particular language (such as DeSmet C,and Turbo Pascal).
Also, I was informed that 'PC Tech Journal' had a review of 16 text
editors a few issues ago (no date was given).

As I said, I haven't tried any of these yet. This was mainly just
a summary of the info. I received.

Thanks to those who replied,

			linus!kbb