Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!brian
From: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Heard of BlackBeard EDITOR?
Message-ID: <1165@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 89 01:37:56 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (The Super User)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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All this talk about Editors that use rodents, and I have not yet heard
my favourite, Multi-Edit.  Has any one else ever used this editor?

It supports just about everything with the mouse, vi pop up menus.

Cut and paste is especially suited for the mouse, and it is real easy to
use.  The editor supports virtual files, is fully configurable, has 
regular expressions for pattern matching, a powerful macro language, multiple
windows (moveable and sizeable), and supports different configurations based
on the filename extensions.

This is not shareware, but a fully featured (ie not crippleware) product has
been released for general distribution.  The only thing it does not have is
the users manual, which will help if you're a macro programmer.  To get the
manual, ya gotta buy it!  It does have online help, though.

My only beef is that it gets real slow when there is less than about
9k of memory left to work with.  It gets into some heavy swapping then.

Brian