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Subject: Re: Heard of BlackBeard EDITOR?
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Date: 8 Feb 89 15:58:04 GMT
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in article <111700028@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu says:
> Have you heard of a public domain editor program called 
> 'BlackBeard Programmer's Editor'?
> 
> Seems like it supports a mouse, 10-file windowing, centering, stay-resident 
> (TSR), etc.  But no words on bigger-than-64kbyte-file handling.  
> Does the program handle this?

Yes, the docs claim that it does virtual file editting. (ie files as
large as your disk) My only complaint with it is that the windows seem
to be of non-modifiable size and when you switch from one window to
another the file in the window you are exiting is written out to disk
and the file in the window you are entering is read in from disk. This
can make window switching slow. The good part of it is the TSR'ing of
it seems to work fine. The only problem I've seen is that it doesn't TSR
fine under the MKS Toolkit shell.

It's decent, but I still prefer MicroEmacs over it.

I'm not in a position to post it. Also, please do not e-mail to me
asking me to mail it to you. You can get it from the following BBS:

DataBasics
(517)337-0261                         (located in E. Lansing, MI)
8-no-1, 300,1200,2400

It's an RBBS system and you'll need XMODEM to download and PKXARC or
ARC to unpack it. I don't recall its exact name on the system, but it is
something like BB.ARC

Good luck, it's worth a try.

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