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From: dpz@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Editor Toolbox
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Date: Fri, 2-May-86 20:41:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 20:41:24 1986
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> Does anybody have any experience using Borland's Turbo Editor Toolbox?

I do - I bought it several months ago.

>Specifically, is it source code that can be modified to become the
>editor of your choice?

Yes, and they even include a compiled version of the source code as a
program called MicroStar, based on good ol' WordStar.  The source code
seems fairly easy to trace, although I got lost once or twice.  One
thing - there is a *lot* of it.  I bought the Editor Toolbox with the
intention of writing my own Emacs in Turbo Pascal with the Toolbox's
extensions, but I ending up with the feeling that the routines in the
Toolbox were too rigid (they decide on a data structure to hold text
and build all their routines on it).  I guess that may just be
personal preference, though - I tend to always want to create my own
data structures.  What it looks like to me is that any program written
using the Turbo Editor Toolbox will have the same internal data
structures as any other program written in it (which may be good) -
the Toolbox gives you a good deal of freedom with the user interface,
though, which is very pleasing.

>Is it memory resident, like the Sidekick notepad?

No, MicroStar isn't, but noone says that you can't build your own
memory resident word processor with the given tools!

		Davidann
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