On Monday 10 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
> This is exactly my point. 3 people, 4 different opinions of editors. So
> why do people insist on making editors inside applications part of the
> application and forcing people to use them when they can just pass the text
> off to the preferred editor and not have to worry about programming, in
> essence, two different applications?
Because, unlike UNIX, Windows has no established convention for
plonking a file to temp, calling a user-defined editor to edit it,
detecting (correctly, 100% of the time!) when the editor has exited,
and reloading the edited file.
John
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something i could feel with my broken hands full of lost ideals but soon i'm
returning to you my friend and we'll go where the rivers end in the silver sea
and i'll carry you if you carry me
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