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From: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Simple screen editor with source code in Pascal.
Summary: Turbo Editor Toolbox
Message-ID: <2402@garth.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 08:28:37 GMT
References: <5927@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1369@igloo.UUCP> <2201@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <2201@uokmax.UUCP>,
srpenndo@uokmax.UUCP (Sean Richard Penndorf) writes:
>In article <1369@igloo.UUCP> andyross@igloo.UUCP (Andrew Rossmann) writes:
>=>In article <5927@saturn.ucsc.edu>,
>=>dennie@ucsce.UCSC.EDU (Dennie Van Tassel, x2578) writes:
>=>>	Please reply for a simple screen editor with source code in pascal
>=>>	to run on IBM PC or compatibles to marty%svx.sv.dg.com@relay.cs.net
>=>  I, too, would like a simple editor for TP5. ...
>Please send me a copy of the source code for a simple screen editor ...

I haven't bought a copy yet, but I think that Borland's Turbo Editor 
Toolbox (Silicon Valley street price: $65) is the way to go,
even on a student income.

The editor has some windowing and menuing features, according to the box,
so it's more than I would think of as a "simple" editor, but 
I doubt that you will find cheaper legal ways to get source in Pascal
that you can get running quickly on a PC.

You might be able to find something in old issues of _Pascal News_ (R.I.P.)
(have fun typing the code it in), or maybe _Dr. Dobbs_ 
(you can order floppies from them for the source in each issue), or
the UCSD Pascal Users Soc'y (USUS) newsletter (then you get to port it ?).
For someone on a student budget, the combined search and porting effort 
may be worth the money saved, but frankly, I think that you would be
better off spending the time working on your projects
(the recommendations herein are withdrawn if the editor *is* the project).

For people with even a little more money, being able to buy the editor
source code, compile it, and use it on a wide variety of displays,
*and* be able to appeal to the dealer or Borland if problems arise,
is well worth the relatively little money they are asking.

As for me, well, my regular editor *is* simple, from the 64KB PC days.
I want to upgrade, but I like the idea of being able to do editing *my way*.
I hate "modeyness" and the "text movement by deletion then yanking back" 
paradigm.

[I have no connection with Borland except as a private-citizen customer].
-- 
[The foregoing may or may not represent the position, if any, of my employer]
 
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