ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) (04/19/89)
In article <5214@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs (John Kaminski) writes: > >2.) is an editor going to be written that realizes that fact and save > automatically? Word Perfect has a save-every-few-minutes feature. For editors that support ARexx (Uedit, TxEd+, CygnusEd Pro), it is pretty easy to write an ARexx script to do it for you too. > >3.) is DEC EDT going to be ported to the Amiga (ha!) or something like it > that creates a history file (called a journal or .JOU file by DEC)? > "Porting" isn't the correct word, perhaps "cloning" is. Saving every keystroke as you type (which is what a .JOU file contains) has always seemed excessive, as in one of the ways Dec gets people to buy huge disks from them at high prices. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu swalton@solar.stanford.edu ...!csun!afws.csun.edu!ecphssrw
jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) (04/21/89)
In article <615@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes: >Actually, CygnusEd Professional provides both timed saves *and* crash >recoverability. > >1. You can set an interval timer after which CEDPro will remind you to save > each file which has not been saved and was altered in that interval. This is a useful feature to have, but unfortunately the current implementation is a bit irritating: CED pops up -- and *activates* -- a requester asking if you want to save the file. A simple 'Y' or 'N' will satisfy it and make it go away. The problem is that when you're typing quickly it's too easy to hit a 'y' or 'n' in your work, and have the requester use it as a response. I've heard that this will be addressed in the next update. Perry, I'm eagerly awaiting that update...how soon will it be? CEDPro is my favorite editor; it's easy, powerful, and very configurable. It's just a hair's width away from what I'd call the Ultimate Text Editor*, and it looks like the update will fill that gap. >2.Should a crash occur between saves, a separate program included with CEDPro > called RecoverCedFiles can be run as soon as you reboot. It will inspect > all memory and recover any files you were editing before the crash including > (usually) all changes made up to the moment the crash occurred. This feature has saved my bacon a couple of times---it's great! > Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. I have no affiliation with ASDG or CygnusSoft other than being a pretty happy customer and sometimes-nag. _________________________________________________________________________ -- John Lockhart jwl@feanor.stanford.edu BIX: jlockhart ___________________________________rule 45: There's always a footnote____ [* Yes, I've considered TxEd, Uedit, vi and emacs clones; emacs is my 2nd choice, and I have CEDPro emulating a lot of emacs commands. No flames/religious wars, please; this is just what works best for *me*.]
shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (04/25/89)
+-- ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes: | [...] Saving every | keystroke as you type (which is what a .JOU file contains) has always | seemed excessive, as in one of the ways Dec gets people to buy huge | disks from them at high prices. Perhaps so, but it was always fun to watch it recover a file. Watching all the edits I did for the last two hours go by at 9600 baud never failed to make me giggle. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC