On Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:20:54 +0100 (BST), Simon Cooke said: > Anybody else downloaded the text editor from the FTP site?
I didn't know it was there. Who put it up? > Points in its favour: > 1) Nice and intelligent word wrap Intelligent as opposed to what? It certainly isn't as intelligent as the program I'm using to format this article, for instance, although for this I have to type the text in first manually and then format it. > 2() Mouse control Great if you have a mouse (which I don't) - the symbol shift plus cursors thingy is a bit awkward. > 4) Choice of palette, choice of font... natch... You may have a later version than the one I've seen. > 1) Can't get it to load files longer than 16k - might be just me though? I didn't get it to load any file at all (that might be because all the files I tried were longer than 16K). I suspect this is because the program is only half completed. > 2) Only works with Outwrite format files... but never mind. Why is this called Outwrite format? "64-character padded lines" have been around for ages, if that's what you are referring to. > 3) Sometimes it snaps out of edit mode, so you're left with a load of > text in the buffer which only gets sent when you click back in the > editing area. That happened to me too, but I don't know what I did to cause it. > 4) Loading in some files crashes the hell out of it See above. I have also managed to crash it by other means, but I can't remember what. Probably one of them was typing a word that is wider than the screen. > 5) I can't seem to get it to edit more than one screen-ful of text. This is definitely due to the program being only half complete. > On the whole, it could be a hell of a lot better than the original > version of Outwrite for text editing. Possibly. :) But then a Sam version of FSE with the current bugs fixed would probably knock the socks off both of those (if you don't know what FSE is then note that a Sam hack of the speccy version is on Syncytium, and the spectrum version itself is on NVG). I refuse to put menus on it though. GUI is for wimps (no pun intended). :-) Ignoring the mouse stuff, Andrew's editor looks like something that one wouldn't have to spend more than a day or two to knock up, but perhaps I'm being overly critical... I'm not sure that it copes with "\nonfrenchspacing", incidentally (that is, the practice of putting two spaces at the end of a sentence). BTW I've written a version of the Unix program "less" in Sam BASIC. Anyone want one? imc
