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From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple developers & programming on the Mac
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Date: 15 Feb 89 21:28:52 GMT
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Reply-To: bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson)
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In article <3916@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:
>You know, this is one thing that REALLY PISSES ME OFF.  I really enjoy
>using THINK C, but that *$*#^ brain-damaged, zero-frills, zero-features
>editor really irks me.  (At least it doesn't "format" automatically like
>the old LSP editor!  Yuccko!!!)
LSP's editor isn't all that bad. It would be nice to have the option to
turn the formatting on/off, but it comes in hand for catching stupid
typos that you might not see until later.

>WHY can't those turkeys at Think give me an editor that LETS ME MOVE FROM
>LINE TO LINE WITH THE LEFT AND RIGHT ARROW KEYS!?!  This is *moronic*!  What
>about the *KEYPAD* ... *MACROS* ... ways to do sophisticated editing without
>having to look at all those blasted dialog boxes!  If they put 1/10 the time
>into the editor that they put into the source-level debugger ... sheesh.
Why should THINK give you everything? They have given us a great compiler
and debugger - that's what I want. The editor is nice, but if I need 'the
whole kitchen sink', I'll QUED/M. If you want to remap some characters - get
QuickKeys. For a program priced so inexpensively, they give most users what 
they want. If you need the all frills editor, pay a few more dollars - it will
be worth it.

Brian Bezanson

The opinions are my own and based on being a satisfied customer of the
THINK and CE products.