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From: schanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Heard of BlackBeard EDITOR?
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Date: 8 Feb 89 03:32:32 GMT
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Reply-To: Christopher Schanck <schanck@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Blackbeards is a heck of an editor, if you have the horses. This summer,
when I was questing for a shareware editor (still am, sigh), I came across
Blackbeards on a local BBS. It is very Brief-like. It has oodles of power,
it handles big files, windows, I *think* regular-expressions. The only
reason I didn't like it was its large size(>200k?) and slow screen handling.
I want something closer to QEdit in size, but more configurable. For me,
that meant writing my own. I have an original 8088, so on an AT-class machine,
Blackbeards would probably be zippy, same as with a faster hard disk.

Chris


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"I do not THINK in regular expressions, and I am not NP-complete!"
--- Christopher Schanck, occasional human being.
schanck@.cis.ohio-state.edu