At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users, >please forgive me.)
EMACS? Like the operating system, that's just lacking a decent editor? >:-} (Doesn't EMACS stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"? :-P >- An editor should be smart enough to page in parts of the file as it >needs to from disk. This enables editing of files that are larger than >the memory size. SEE does this just fine... ;-) >- An editor should have "journalling" to help recover the lost work if >the machine crashes while editing. This is normally done by recording >the keystrokes to a separate temporary file and flushing them to disk >periodically. In the event of a crash the journal file can be replayed >to restore most of the edits, and hopefully not cause another crash >because of a bug in the editor. Wouldn't it be better to fix the bug in the editor instead? >:-} >- Undo support. > >- The ability to convert tabs to whitespace and vice-versa. > >- A pop-up on-screen ruler. > >- Regular expression support for searching through text. > >- A hexadecimal display mode. I could see the use for a (limited at least) Undo support and regex search, but I could do easily without the others. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
