Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!necntc!adelie!munsell!klm From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DME (was Marketing suggestion for C-A) Message-ID: <1104@knopfler.munsell.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 12:33:30 EDT Article-I.D.: knopfler.1104 Posted: Tue Jun 30 12:33:30 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 00:39:33 EDT References: <8706260802.AA10341@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: klm@knopfler.UUCP (Kevin McBride) Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 63 In article <8706260802.AA10341@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes: >[...] >Initially I was very enthusiastic about DME, and started using it... > >But then I found that DME destroys some white space information that is... > >I discussed this via email with Matt, and he says that 1) this behavior >is intrinsic to DME and only a total rewrite could fix it, and 2) for >his own reasons he thinks that this behavior is desirable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *VERY* important point here! >I strongly disagree; I don't think that editors should feel free to... > >There were some other things I was hoping to see as well, but they >were, I suppose, a matter of taste. Just for the record, I would be ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Also important! >delighted to see an editor that supports undo and full regular expression >search and replace... > >Meanwhile I have switched back to another editor that I enjoy less, >but at least can be trusted to handle my files safely. Anyone using >DME or considering using DME should decide whether this issue is >important to them *before* they get hopelessly hooked on it (the >transition was difficult, DME does have some nice features that I was >sad to give up). > Doug Merritt ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug Well, Doug, I've said it before and I'll say it again, "When it comes to editors, you use what you feel comfortable with." This statement can also be made to apply to spreadsheets, data bases and other such things that us owners of the ultimate hacking machine aren't interested in. If you don't like DME for some reason, that's your business. Matt himself described the reasons for the existence of DME in his v1.1 release notes which I dug up from my archives yesterday. He wrote it to suit his own tastes because there wasn't anything else available that would do anything close to what he wanted. He found it to be useful and decided to share it with the rest of the world. If you don't like it, don't flame Matt, write your own editor. If you were paying for DME, I could see your point, but since you're not, you don't have much room to complain. I personally don't like the MicroTrashmacs on the 1.2 Extras disk, but I'm not going to complain about it too loudly because it was a "Freebie." If I had paid my unfriendly neighborhood computer store $150 bucks for it, I'd be screaming my head off. This posting comes with a double your money back guarantee. Just remember how much I charged you for it. :-) :-) :-) :-) -- Kevin McBride |Disclaimer: These | harvard -\ Eikonix - A Kodak Co. | opinions are mine, | ll-xn ---adelie-----> munsell!klm 23 Crosby Dr. | not my employer's, | decvax -v talcott -v | Bedford, MA 01730 | So There! | allegra ------------encore