Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!dalcs!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: QEDIT Message-ID: <390@aucs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 07:44:19 EDT Article-I.D.: aucs.390 Posted: Tue Jun 30 07:44:19 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jul-87 04:51:36 EDT Reply-To: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Distribution: na Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 78 From dalcs!seismo!cmcl2!psuvax1!NDSUVM1.BITNET!NU013809 Sun Jun 28 14:30:42 1987 Received: by aucs.UUCP (5.51/5.17) id AA26062; Sun, 28 Jun 87 14:30:40 ADT Received: by dalcs.UUCP id AA15942; Sun, 28 Jun 87 14:15:56 ADT Received: from cmcl2.UUCP by seismo.CSS.GOV (5.54/1.14) with UUCP id AA10990; Sun, 28 Jun 87 11:45:11 EDT Received: by cmcl2.NYU.EDU (5.54/25-eef) id AA21262; Sun, 28 Jun 87 07:26:02 EDT Message-Id: <8706281126.AA21262@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> Received: From ndsuvm1.bitnet By psuvax1.bitnet ; 28 Jun 87 09:52:30 GMT Received: by NDSUVM1 (Mailer X1.24) id 7781; Tue, 23 Jun 87 08:08:51 CDT Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1987 07:48 CDT From: Greg Wettstein Subject: Re: Program Editor To: Status: R I do a lot of consulting work in the Biomedical field. The majority of of my programming (and I do a lot) is done in C under MS-DOS. The best editor I have ever found or cared to use on the PC is an editor by the name of QEDIT written by Sammy Mitchell down in Georgia. The editor is a mix of Turbo-Pascal and In-line assembler code and is available on a lot of bulletin boards around the country. Important features are: FAST - The people who wrote the editor spent a lot of time getting speed out of this editor. While speed is not probably as important with hark disks as it was with floppies QEDIT is the only editor I would even consider using on a floppy. On a hard disk it is extremely fast. COMPACT - In order to get speed out of the editor particular attention was paid to reducing the size of the executable file. I think the .COM file comes in at around 37 or 38K. MULTIPLE FILES - Qedit is a true multi-file editor. It will edit any number of files up to the limit of available memory. I have edited files greater than 400K with never a glitch. SPLIT SCREEN - Two files may be edited at one time on a single screen with rapid toggling between them. The amount of screen allocated to the two files may be dynamically toggled. VARIABLE INDENTING - The editor can be configured to provide automatic indentation of files based on the file extension. e.g. C or H. AUTOMATIC INDENTING - The editor has an auto-indent mode which will align subsequent lines of text with the previous line. USER CONFIGURABLE - A very good configuration program comes with the editor which provides the user essentially complete control over the keyboard layout, screen utilization etc. A person can configure the editor to mimic almost any other type of word processor or editor. A default configuration file which comes with the program provides a layout very similar to Wordstar. QEDIT supplies about every feature I have ever wanted in an editor. It unfortunately has no provisions for macro's which has never really caused me that much concern. Its performance in all other areas more than makes up for a lack of a macro facility. By the sounds of his documentation I think Sammy and his outfit (SEMWARE) are an easy organization to work with. If QEDIT in its standard release form does not meet all your needs I think a phone call to them would probably produce some customization at reasonable fees. I really think QEDIT is probably the best program I have found on the Bulletin Board services and I have looked at a lot of software that floats around. I spend about 14 hours a day with computers and it is very apparent to me that Sammy Mitchell knew what he was doing when he wrote QEDIT. As always, G.W. Wettstein