Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdcsu!dsnow From: dsnow@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Snow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Qedit Wish List Message-ID: <4440@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 19 Feb 88 22:41:59 GMT Reply-To: dsnow@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Snow) Distribution: world Organization: Arts Computing Office, University of Waterloo. Lines: 51 I just noticed an article which said that a new version of Qedit was about to be released. This is absolutely my favourite editor and I've been keeping a list of things that have occurred to me about it. Some of these are wishes and some are bugs. To the Author ( whose name I've long lost ), you've done an exceptional piece of work. I've been intending to post this for a long time ...... These are Bugs or Irritations I've noticed with Qedit Version 1.30a * Lines Longer than 255 Characters are Discarded! This is very irritating since many packages, or files may only have LF terminators. Why not do a LF/CR translate? ( Even temporarily ). * File Names longer than 8 characters bump into the Extension. Ie. If I inadvertantly type Q 123456789.123 The filename becomes 123456789.12 and is then saved as 12345678.12! * Feature: Global Replace should allow me to specify as the search string and assume this means the beginning of each line. Ie. Say I have a list of Files and I want to insert DEL at the beginning of each line... there is no way to do this and I have to switch editors ( Or write filter 9000 in a series ). * Why are block selections not saved between file Windows? This is a Minor point, but occassionally I want to Make some block selection, then before doing anything I want to switch windows to check something. * Since the editor is so configurable, Why not A memory Resident HELP screen? I realize this would slow things down and Possibly defeat the spirit of the Editor, but it could be configured in. I wouldn't need it, but, since I try and turn people onto the editor, this is their major fear. * I don't like the filename prompt after exiting files or forgetting a filename. Minor point though, I live well with it as it is. Why not allow it to be configured out? * Any intention of allowing column oriented or word, line, oriented block selection? Thanks and have fun .. Doug -------- Doug Snow, ACO, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. dsnow@watdcsu.waterloo.EDU ...!watmath!watdcsu!dsnow dougsnow@watdcs.NETNORTH doug@artspas.watstar.waterloo.EDU