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Friday, August 11, 2000, 5:03:19 AM, Soth wrote:
> I don't believe that's a justifiable claim.
Oh, it is more than justifiable. I downloaded it and boy did the problems
come flooding in. First off, default colors were completely unacceptable.
When I changed them none of the context highlighting matched their basic lines
to the defaults. BAD. Not to mention the default context highlighting colors
were horrid in the first place. Half the things were unreadable. Dare I even
mention that it had all of, what, 5 highlight types?
Failed to reflow a quoted paragraph.
MDI application. That is about 82 strikes against it right there.
Very few, if any, of the commands were accessible from the keyboard. When
coding, typing a letter to mom or composing an email guess where my hands are?
If you guessed the mouse, you're wrong. That is a HUGE strike against it
right there. I didn't learn the single most important lesson about basic text
editing. The primary input is the /keyboard/ so /all/ important commands
should be accessible from the keyboard. That alone barely puts it above
Notepad.
Complete lack of Regex. Text editing without regex is unacceptable,
completely.
UltraEdit, is basically Notepad with the lousy MDI interface and /some/
cutesy tricks bolted on in a haphazard fashion. It is completely unsuited for
any heavy duty editing of any sort. $30 for it is too kind.
The last editor I paid for, Mr. Ed on OS/2, at least had most commands on
the keyboard. I don't recall what else it did or did not do since that was a
good 5 years ago?
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