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Re: Text Editors

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From: Jody Hagins
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 21:18
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In article <11587@j.cc.purdue.edu>, zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert
Zhou) writes:
|> Writing an editor is not really an easy task. If you really want to
write an
|> editor buy yourself, I suggest that you get an editor toolbox so that
basic
|> screen, memory and file control are just a few rountine calls away
and you
|> can concentrate on User interface and specific functions you want to
implement.
|> 
|> As an alternative, one could get Turbo Pascal 3.0 as a text editor.
It is very
|> compact, requires very little memory yet very powerful. I've long
upgraded my
|> 3.0 to 5.5, but since my hard disk is not fast enough and it takes
time to
|> load 5.5, sometimes I use 3.0 as a mere editor if I want to write
something
|> really short.
|> 



In addition, Borland offeres a package called Turbo Editor Toolbox
with source for a pretty good editor.  I picked up one for 5 bucks
at a local store (since it was for version 3.0).


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From: hagins@dg-rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins)
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Subject: Re: Text Editors
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Date: 30 Nov 90 21:18:35 GMT
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