rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (02/23/90)
Has anyone used the program Speed Edit by Bradford Business Systems, Inc? It is supposed to work with Windows, PM, Dos, OS/2 and Unix. Any information would be appreciated. -----Dale Rogerson-----
todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) (07/24/90)
I just read about SpeedEdit in BYTE's July "what's new" section. It appears
to be a programmer's editor for use under Windows 3.0.
Has anyone out there tried it? How does it compare to Brief or the Sage
Professional Editor (which I just bought recently)?
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INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDUmoran@drivax.UUCP (Mike Moran) (07/26/90)
todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes: >I just read about SpeedEdit in BYTE's July "what's new" section. It appears >to be a programmer's editor for use under Windows 3.0. >Has anyone out there tried it? How does it compare to Brief or the Sage >Professional Editor (which I just bought recently)? We are presently evaluating it to determine if it meets our development needs (which are rather stringent). I will post the outcome of this evaluation for the benefit of others who are considering SpeedEdit. -- Michael A. Moran Digital Research 70 Garden Court B15 Monterey, CA 93940
akcs.mikez@vpnet.chi.il.us (Mike Zemina) (08/09/90)
There is also the program RED that is available from Austin Code Works It has capability to run on the debugging monitor Has macro capabilty and other features. Talked with author and he sounds like would add features IF sales would pick up.
gt3070b@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeff Watkins) (08/10/90)
In article <26c0602f-2c6.2comp.windows.ms-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> akcs.mikez@vpnet.chi.il.us (Mike Zemina) writes: >There is also the program RED that is available from Austin Code Works >It has capability to run on the debugging monitor Has macro capabilty and >other features. Talked with author and he sounds like would add features IF >sales would pick up. DON'T BUY RED! I recently received my copy. For 150 dollars you get a primitive editor that does not provide an option to compile the working file. The interface is not standard, text handling is really horrorable. The only redeeming quality is that you receive source code for it. There are some interesting features, which RED does not handle properly, which you might be able to pry out of the source and include elsewhere (at the risk of copyright infringement). In all, I am very glad that it was COMPANY money that bought RED and not my own. DON'T BUY RED! ciao jeff -- Jeff Watkins gt3070b@prism.gatech.edu "All opinions are mine... so don't even think of keeping some to yourself!"
moran@drivax.UUCP (Mike Moran) (08/14/90)
Regarding SpeedEdit. Now that we have had a chance to evaluate it we have decided that it is a good editor for program development under Windows. It has many nice features, like the ability to set how you want to invoke the compiler from inside the editor (we use ndmake - for its small size - as opposed to Microsoft's nmake). The keyboard is remappable BUT, you can not use multiple keystroke sequences. In other words forget making an EMACS keyboard mapping because things like <CTRL>-X S are impossible. This i really the only complaint we have with SpeedEdit. Very powerful, not buggy, you can develop Windows apps and not have to leave Windows. Just a soon to be satisfied customer, Michael A. Moran -- Michael A. Moran Digital Research 70 Garden Court B15 Monterey, CA 93940
fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com (08/22/90)
I have not seen SpeedEdit for Windows, but I have the character mode version. Frankly, in comparison to Sage, Brief, Epsilon, ME, et al, I felt it had little to distinguish it and definitely had an arcane command interface (at least, it reminded me too much of odd editors I'd used under IBM's Wylbur and under Motorola's VersaDos). It appears to be a port of an editor popular on HP mini-computers. ---------- Fred Christiansen, Intel, JF1-67 503-696-4214 | fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com 5200 NE Elam Young Prkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | uunet!intelhf!starlite!fredch Love&Marriage: More imperative than marrying the one you love is to love the one you are married to. -- RDS