Hi there!
On 12 Jan 00, at 9:03, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: suggestion- / wish-list":
> > Steve, any idea what editors you have seen under windows which might
> > do the job as external editors for the Bat??
>
> Well, an editor which just edits plain text would work. As I've said, my
> preference is for vim which is really a unix[1] editor. My other preference is
> joe, another unix editor. I've not looked at GUI based editors ever since my
> OS/2 days when I used to use Mr. Ed for my external editor for PMMail/2.
Hey, Steve, seems we were working just in the same manner with you in *our*
OS/2 days;-) Under Windoze, I was always missing (at least), four things:
1) WatchCat (system spying and maintenance);
2) Mr.Ed (editor)
3) PMView (image viewer and more)
4) WarpCenter (GUI enhancement: multiple desktops and such)
For the 1) above I still have nothing under Windoze; for the second WinEdt
seems to be even a *better* replacement (although Mr.Ed was faster and
smaller, but that's a usual thing when you compare the Windows application to
its OS/2 counterpart;-(); for the third, nothing would qualify, but AFAIK
PMView will be soon available for Windoze, which is a really good thing (tm):
www.pmview.com for all interested; for the fourth there is PerfectScreens
(www.softwareutilities.com) which is not the same, but can stand for a
functional replacement given the overall quality of Windows GUI compared to
OS/2 PM;-)
> Hell, calling a different editor with any name shouldn't be that hard.
> The only problem, as people have rightfully pointed out, is that if the editor
> doesn't exit after the task at hand is completed there is a problem
> signaling to the email client to read in the temp file and continue with its
> task.
It's not a problem if one could use DDE. A simple script (not a program even)
would help.
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