hgcjr@utastro.UUCP (Harold G. Corwin Jr.) (01/07/87)
My thanks to all who responded to my request for a cheap,
configurable editor that will handle files up to RAM limits.
I'm sorry that I couldn't reply individually to everyone;
time and our less-than-optimal mail system saw to that.
Special thanks to everyone who offered to send the shareware
editors. Insofar as our mailer has let me, I've taken you up on
the offers. If you didn't hear from me, someone else either got
a reply in before you, or the daemon ate it.
A short summary of the results: MicroEMACS got 8 votes,
QEDIT (from SEMWare) got 3, as did IBM's Personal Editor (Ver2).
The Norton Editor got 2 votes (a fully configurable version
is scheduled for release sometime this spring), and coming in
at one vote apiece are: Epsilon (from Lugaru Software;
expensive, however), DVED (shareware), KEDIT (Mansfield Software;
expensive), Jove (based on EMACS), the Mix Editor, Sidekick's
editor, NYWord (shareware word processor; configurable version
available upon registration), and OMNI (shareware, not configurable).
I'll try a few of those that you folks recommended, and expect
that I'll find one that fits like an old, comfortable glove. Thanks
again!
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Harold G. Corwin, Jr.
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