Hi Paul,

AS>> Indeed. RIT aparently thought that thousands and thousands of
AS>> editors were doing it all wrong and invented their own system.
PVN> Change and improvement doesn't happen unless someone is willing
PVN> to be bold enough to go outside the box. There is nothing to say
PVN> the other editors are correct and the TB is wrong.

The others are the majority, that fact alone says enough. Which way is
the user supposed to get learn - the usual one that he can use at
home, at work, at school, from Europe to the Far East on every editor
he happens to stumble on; or the special one that works on one editor,
and this one editor only?

Come on.

You may not like the fact that Microsoft decided to put a menu named
"File" to the far left of the menu bars in all their programs, much
less that every other software author imitates this behaviour. Still
you have to admit that you don't have to search for where to save a
file in all those programs. It is where you expect it - in the far
left menu, named "File".

Like it or not, that's standard.


PVN> I certainly don't expect each to conform to a single set of
PVN> conventions.

There are basic features and extended features. The basic features are
such like that when you press the key "q" on your keyboard the letter
will appear somewhere in your text. These are the basic requirements,
and LF-handling is one of them since we had to bury EDLIN.

The extended features are targeted at a special purpose of the
particular editor. They make the difference between Visual Studio IDE
and MS Word. But these features build upon the basic ones, they do not
modify them. If they still do, then they shouldn't do so without good
cause and reason, and the user should always be able to switch back to
the method he has grown accustomed with over the years.


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MfG,
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