del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) (04/26/91)
This is a sad state of the PC software world. Either that or it's a joke. >Posting-number: Volume 12, Issue 001 >Submitted-by: wsinda@info.win.tue.nl (Dick Alstein) >Archive-name: ae/part01 > >programming) editor, with source, written in Trubo Pascal, and able to >edit files which fit in memory. Ideal for someone who just wants to do ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >light editing. Later on we find out that not only must the files fit in memory, but they must also be smaller than 64k. Although we graciously are provided with tools to split the file into pieces and merge them back together again (as if anyone in their right mind would do that when there are other editors available). >a small editor, here it is, complete with ability to handle multiple >files with cut and paste. There are smaller, better, more capable editors out there. >Submitter wsinda@info.win.tue.nl (Dick Alstein) says: > >* Small: 42k byte EXE file. ..... >full source code. Its main restriction is that it cannot handle files >larger than 64k bytes, but it comes with utilities for splitting and >merging large files so that these can be edited as well. Small? See below. At 42k, if you can't handle files as big as memory, you aren't a player! I have the following files on my system: E88: 13k bytes. Size of file limited only by available memory. It does not support multiple files, but look Ma, only 13k! If program size is *really* the issue, multiple files is no big deal, but 13k is... Hacked version of Micro-Emacs: 50k bytes. LARGE # of files (not just 3) and no limit to file size other than available memory. Includes user definable keyboard macros. Comes with complete source. (This is not the current me3.9 hopelessly bloated from trying to masquerade as a word processor, but an earlier version which is lean, mean and functional) PED: 42k bytes. Up to 8 files, not limited in size but for available memory. Pull down menus take a bunch of room in this one, so the editor itself is even smaller. QEDIT: 29k bytes. # Files and file size limited only by available memory. (Later versions of Qedit have bloated featurism, a common plague) These are just the programs that I have handy that a quick 'ls' showed. I'm sure there are lots of others. Mostly either smaller or better (or both) than this late entry. Note that E88 is from *1986*. I also have the following: WS: 21k bytes. Ok, so this is a commercial program, and includes an overlay file. But the flip side is that it is a word processor with text formatting, menus, etc. And the file size is not even limited by available memory! I can run this in a 128k Desqview window and edit files of 500k. -- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del Who is John Galt?