Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: CEDPro Release 2 questions Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 90 10:54:18 GMT Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 44 Perhaps Perry, or somebody with a copy of CEDPro Rel 2, can answer the following questions: * Can CEDPro edit files larger than physical memory? * Can CEDPro handle more file buffers than physical memory will allow? * Does CEDPro release memory back to the system when a buffer is eliminated, or does its "working set" continue to increase during the lifetime of the program's run? * Is it possible to get some sort of a shell running in a CEDPro window, either automatically or through a batch of ARexx hacks? * Does CEDPro support anything like the Emacs "kill ring", which remembers the last n text deletions and allows you to choose among them when inserting text into the current buffer? * Does CEDPro support anything like the Emacs "incremental search", where the editor searches for the string as it is being typed? If not, would it be possible to implement it via ARexx? Would it be easy? * Does CEDPro come with a C programming mode, which does auto-indentation of C code, match parentheses and braces, and offers commands for cursor movement that operate around C syntax? Is it easy to customize indentation styles? Would it be easy to extend the facility to handle C++ syntax? I like the concept of a fast, powerful editor that takes advantage of the Amiga interface and uses ARexx as its extension language. However, after five years using Emacs, I'm enough of an Emacs bigot that I don't want to lose features by changing editors. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering