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From: rokicki@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some minuses to Txed Plus
Message-ID: <2700@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:48:06 GMT
References: <1167@raybed2.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 52
Keywords: Txed Arp
Summary: TxED Plus is Great!

In article <1167@raybed2.UUCP>, lah@raybed2.UUCP (LANCE HOLMES) writes:
> I have just purchased and tried out txed plus and  have the following
> comments/questions/problems.

I've just got TxED Plus myself, and I'd like to respond to some of
your comments.

> After installing txed and experimenting I have found the following
> things to be a major difference and some thing you may want to consider
> before buying it.  The default Memory available is now reduced from
> 35000 in txed v1.31 to 20000 in txed 2.0.  This means that if you
> have a file larger than 20000 Characters such as a file that you captured
> from the net and have to clean up so that you can uudecode or un shar it
> you can't load it into Txed.

This is not true.  I believe that 20000 you refer to is the macro memory;
I'm not sure.  In any case, I just loaded a 462K file into TxED Plus;
over 18000 lines.  It loaded in less than 4 seconds, and every line is
there.  In comparison, mg1b.tgr loaded this same file in 50 seconds.
(The file was on vd0: for both tests.)  Make sure of what you speak;
that's a nasty thing to say about a text editor, that it doesn't work for
large files.

> The second minus in Txed Plus is that it uses Arp.library.

I consider this a definite plus.  The editor is only 23K big!
arp.library is 14K.  The sum of these two is smaller than almost any
other editor out there (my personal version of mg, totally stripped,
is 55K.)  Hell, if you replace your standard commands with the Arp
commands and the arp.library, that alone probably frees up enough space
for the editor.

I used to not use Arp; I had some bad experiences with it.  Now I
won't go back; you have to see how small the commands are and how
well everything works to appreciate it.  Plus, you can use arp.library
in your own programs!

I will agree with you that the installation of Arp is somewhat
confusing as it is distributed with TxED Plus.  Of course, this
must be tempered with the fact that Arp is a freebie.

> however there seems to be 30 day money back satisfaction Warranty listed
> in the manual which I presently feel that I may have to use.

I'm sorry you feel that way; I don't think you'll find a better editor
for the Amiga.

(Personal note:  I use mg myself mostly, because I use Emacs on every
other machine in the world.  But I keep e around for some of its nice
features.)

-tom