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Subject: Text editors
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 10:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 10:10:00 1987
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  Can anyone comment on the reason for the appalling slow text
read and write times of the various editors on the ST.  I find
1st word and wordwriter to be almost useless because of this and
even the simple text editor STEDT (public domain) takes more
time to load up a Fortran source file than my compilier takes
to compile it!
  In order to get even simple features like word delete, fast
jumps around the body of a large text file, etc. I prefer the
public domain program STWRITER.  It doesn't make much use of
GEM (no windows) and does not have a "what you see is what you
get" format, but it is reasonably fast.
  There is also a public domain program called CONVERT that will
convert (what else?) STWRITER files into a form suitable for
importing into Publishing Partner.  Then if you've got the time...
L. R. Fortney, Physics Dept, Duke Univ.  DLLOYD@TUCC