Hello Alexander V. Kiselev,
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:51:16 +0300 GMT your local time,
which was Thursday, January 13, 2000, 1:51:16 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
Alexander> Hi there!
Alexander> On 12 Jan 00, at 9:03, Steve Lamb wrote
Alexander> 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.
Alexander> Hey, Steve, seems we were working just in the same manner with you in *our*
Alexander> OS/2 days;-) Under Windoze, I was always missing (at least), four things:
Alexander> 1) WatchCat (system spying and maintenance);
have you ever seen INFSPY??
or doesnt that look at the things you want to see??
Alexander> 2) Mr.Ed (editor)
Alexander> 3) PMView (image viewer and more)
ACDSEE??
Or has that wanted things missing...
Alexander> 4) WarpCenter (GUI enhancement: multiple desktops and such)
Alexander> For the 1) above I still have nothing under Windoze; for the second WinEdt
Alexander> seems to be even a *better* replacement (although Mr.Ed was faster and
Alexander> smaller, but that's a usual thing when you compare the Windows application
to
Alexander> its OS/2 counterpart;-(); for the third, nothing would qualify, but AFAIK
Alexander> PMView will be soon available for Windoze, which is a really good thing
(tm):
Alexander> www.pmview.com for all interested; for the fourth there is PerfectScreens
Alexander> (www.softwareutilities.com) which is not the same, but can stand for a
Alexander> functional replacement given the overall quality of Windows GUI compared to
Alexander> 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.
Alexander> It's not a problem if one could use DDE. A simple script (not a program
even)
Alexander> would help.
Best regards,
tracer
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