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From: scott@yale.ARPA (Walter Scott)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: The apple public-domain editor
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 21:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 21:28:20 1985
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[I can't believe this bug is still around]

This is a followup to an article about 'Edit', Apple's public-domain
editor which comes with MDS, Aztec C, and presumably several other
programming languages.  I have been using Edit heavily for the past few
months as part of my Aztec-C system, on a 128K Mac, and although I
greatly enjoy its multiple-windows-onto-multiple-files capability and
other features, I have been greatly inconvenienced by its bugs.  Many
times Edit has pretended to save a file when actually it doesn't, so
when I reopen the file I have lost all my changes.  Edit has also been
known to munge, chew up, and generally destroy files to an extent that I
always have to keep backups of everything and never know when I'm going
to lose data.  Also, it seems to be lacking in error checks for low
memory, because I can easily crash the system by opening too many
windows, keeping a large file in memory, changing the font on a large
file, etc. In general, Edit has been a source of much grief for me.  I
still prefer it to MacWrite for program editing, and I'm not going to
buy Word just to use as a text editor.  I would much rather have Apple
fix the bugs in Edit and send out an updated version.

Walter Scott
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