psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) (08/31/90)
The Sage editor for MSDOS is being hyped quite heavily in ads. Anyone tried it yet, and if so, how do you like it?
spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) (09/02/90)
In article <1194@manta.NOSC.MIL> psm@manta.nosc.mil (Scot Mcintosh) writes: >The Sage editor for MSDOS is being hyped quite heavily in >ads. Anyone tried it yet, and if so, how do you like it? I tried it, not for very long. I hated it. This might be a hasty conclusion; if you have the patience to grow to love this product, go for it. The biggest problems I had were: * quirky windowing interface which is not IBM SAA/CUA compliant (meaning the mouse, windows, and menu bars do not necessarily work exactly as you expect them to) * The multiplicity of modes makes the documentation a mess. For every function there are several possible bindings, and the printed documentation did not even describe the mode I wanted to use, Emacs mode! The pull-down menubar wasn't always there; to get it you had to type M-x menu <cr> which I thought was a bit of a pain in the @. Since there was no documentation on emacs mode I got frustrated and gave up on this editor. Joel Spolsky spolsky@cs.yale.edu Talk Hard.