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 Date: 02-02-90 (19:46)              Number: 2855 (Echo)
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 From: ZAFAR ESSAK                     Read: (N/A)
 Subj: LANGUAGE FEATURES             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 In a review article in PC WEEK, July 3, 1989, comparing Turbo Pascal & 
 QuickPascal the following table of features was compiled by Ben Myers. 

 Some of the following items would be redundant or useless in a Forth 
 Development Environment, but what about the rest? 

 KEY FEATURES of Programming Languages. (Part 1 of 3) 

 EDITOR and ENVIRONMENT 

     Configurable colours 
     Customize Keyboard 
     Uses Mouse 
     Maximum number of file-editing windows 
     Maximum File-size that can be edited 
     Resize Editing Windows 
     Move Editing Windows 
     Duplicate Editing Windows 
     Cascade/Tile Windows 
     View Output Screen 
     Control Animation Speed 
     Control Screen Swapping 
     Change Compiler Directory 
     Change Help Directory 
     Change Source Directory 
     Change Include Directory 
     Change Object Directory 
     Change Unit Directory 
     Change EXE Directory 
     Use Short/Full Menus 

 FILE HANDLING 

     Pick List of Recent Files 
     Create New File 
     Open File 
     Merge File at Cursor 
     Save File 
     Save File with New Name 
     Print File in Current Window 
     Print Selected Text 
     Make File Read-Only 
     Change Directory 
     OS Shell 

 EDITING 

     Cut Text Between Files 
     Copy Text Between Files 
     Paste Text into File 
     Color-coded Syntax (Pascal) 
     Cut and Copy from Help examples 
     Overstrike Editing 
     Insert Editing 

 TEXT SEARCHING 

     Search Menu or Commands 
     Find Text 
     Find Highlighted Text 
     Repeat Last Find 
     Change Text 
     Match on Whole Word 
     Match Upper/Lower Case 
     Match on Regular Expression 
     Put Tags in Text 
     Go to Previous Tag in Text 
     Go to Next Tag in Text 
     Clear All Tags 

 More to come... 
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