BD05@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Roland Waldi) (03/16/90)
Roland Waldi
Universitaet Karlsruhe DESY
Inst. fuer Exp. Kernphysik F15
Physikhochhaus, P.O.Box 6980 Notkestr. 85
D-7500 Karlsruhe D-2000 Hamburg 52
Tel. (721)-608-3559 (40)-8998-3637
BD05 at DKAUNI2.BITNET F15WAL at DHHDESY3.BITNET
A few months ago I asked whether there is interest in an XEDIT-like
editor. From the replies I got the impression, that there are people
who appreciate this kind of editors, but certainly not as many making
extensive efforts - like writing a good manual - worthwhile. So I
decided to put WEDIT as is out as shareware. It has been posted to
Steven Grimm at panarthea; I think you can obtain it from there
already (you are really fast, Steven!).
If you dislike XEDIT, don't waste net bandwidth to obtain WEDIT;
although it has additional features like file wildcard support, it
will not be to your liking.
If you like XEDIT, or are open minded to concepts different from
UNIX, you will probably like WEDIT and can give it a try.
For comparison, I did some benchmarks with a 6000 line file on a
Megafile 60 harddisk (for more details, see WEDIT.INF):
Editor load search change1 change2 store
------------------- ---- ------ ------- ------- -----
WEDIT 1.00 21s 4.6s 97s 8s 8s
TEMPUS 1.01 6s 2.6s 91s 11s 9s
GNOME 2.1 36s 25 s 290s 147s 33s
1st_WORD 1.06 170s 150 s 560s 340s 240s
Here are also some words about CMS and UNIX: This is a matter of
taste, of course, but to correct the bias on this net: Many people I
know - including myself - prefer CMS to UNIX. Of course, you have to
have the appropriate tools, a bare system of either flavour is rather
cumbersome. In this sense, I think that UNIX-systems could gain much
in user-friendlyness, if an XEDIT-like editor existed in their world.
Roland Waldi