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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: A small, fast editor required...
Message-ID: <2524@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 23 May 89 12:27:34 GMT
References: <31900@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <1989May22.094523.7156@csusac.uucp>
Reply-To: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <1989May22.094523.7156@csusac.uucp> emmonsl@csusac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
>In article <2940@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> pottera@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Alan T Potter) writes:
>> 	   Can anyone recommend a small, fast MSDOS text editor?  Something
>>    like the editor from Turbo Pascal 3, if only it didn't have the associated
>>    paraphenalia of the Pascal compiler?
>
>Qedit is the fastest, easiest, and (in my opinion) best editor I have used.  It
>allows full conifiguration for all editing commands, and has popdown menus if
>you prefer them to directinput commands (which it also has, of course).
>It supports macros, automatic filename inclusion, and bit maps directly to CRT
>RAM (scrolling & paging is instant).  There is a registration fee of some sort,
>but it may be worth it...a nice editor.
>
>			lse
	I agree completely!  I do not know what I like best about QEdit, size
speed, or configurability, but I like it alot.  It small (<80k) which means
that you can load it *very fast*.  I rarely use type and never use any of the
browse programs, because QEdit loads quick enough so that these programs are
unneeded.  All of the keyboard commands can be bound to *ANY* key.  I have
installed it on a Tandy 1000 and can used any of the "wierd" keys I want.  
QEdit is also nice because you can load into memory as many files as will
fit and then switch between them.  The default configuration is basically the
same as the editor in Turbo Pascal.  It can't hurt to look at!

-----Dale
	Rogerson----