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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: A small, fast editor required...
Message-ID: <1511@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 17:16:54 GMT
References: <31900@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <1989May22.094523.7156@csusac.uucp> <2524@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
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In article <2524@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>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?  
>>
>>Qedit is the fastest, easiest, and (in my opinion) best editor I have used.  
>>It allows full conifiguration for all editing commands...
	In fact, I've configured QEDIT to look remarkably like my Turbo C
	and Turbo Pascal editors.  (However, I've configured both of them,
	too.)

>I agree completely!  I do not know what I like best about QEdit, size
>speed, or configurability, but I like it alot.  

	I, too, like it a lot.  However, it has two shortcomings, one
	severe and the other just an inconvenience (but who needs
	inconvenience in their editors?).

   SEVERE PROBLEM: It doesn't handle tabs at all well.  (I consider the
	ONLY proper handling of tabs to be to retain it as a single
	tab character, but display it on the screen interpreted to the
	next tab stop.  Qedit (the latest version I've seen) has three or
	four different WRONG ways to do it.

   ANNOYANCE: The Turbo editors have spoiled me with the ability to mark
	one (or more) places in the text and return to the marked place.
	Qedit does not have this feature.

I use Qedit for ordinary text editing, but the tabs problem makes it
pretty useless for programs or tables.  The inability to return to a
marked place makes it less than ideal for large text files (>200 lines).

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