Re: A82: Poll

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Re: A82: Poll


In a message dated 1/5/2000 3:29:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Kouri@ucdavis.edu writes:

> Hi. Just a quick poll here. Which editor do you prefer? Windows Notepad, 
DOS 
> Edit, or other?
>  I am trying to incorporate the best features of each into my program.
>  For example, Edit has a free moving cursor. That is, you can move the 
cursor 
> to any part of the screen and just start
>  typing away. But in Notepad, the cursor must follow the text. You can't 
just 
> click at a point on the screen and start
>  typing there. However having the cursor follow the text is sometimes 
better 
> for browsing through files. So which style
>  would you prefer? I can do either. Right now I'm doing the Notepad style, 
so 
> if more people would rather have the Edit
>  style, tell me now!
>  Edit doesn't have a word wrap feature, but Notepad does. I've already 
> included a word wrap feature in my program.
>  Notepad has selectable fonts, Edit doesn't. My program has two selectable 
> fonts, and both have full ASCII character
>  sets.
>  Edit has selectable tab sizes. Notepad doesn't. Right now my program has 
> tabs fixed at 8 spaces. If enough people want
>  it, I'll try to make it variable though.
>  Neither Edit nor Notepad has a goto line: x feature. This I want to 
> implement as well.
>  There are lots of little things that make a good editor, and I'll try to 
> include as many of them as I can. What are your
>  favorite editor features?
>  
>  -Kouri
>  http://kouri.cjb.net

I personally do all my coding in EditPad, a free alternative to NotePad.  It 
is basically NotePad with a better interface and more features.  A lot of the 
features, such as easy access to multiple files opened, wouldn't be practical 
or even useful on a calculator.  But the line features (constantly knowing 
what line you're on and being able to go to any line) are very useful, 
especially for coding.
On thing that would be cool is being able to turn the calc sideways and use 
it as a qwerty keyboard.  I made a small demo program in BASIC that allowed 
you to do this a few years ago just for fun.  I was planning on making a text 
editor in asm but it never happened and probably never will.  This probably 
isn't practical either, since the letters should be displayed sideways as 
well, but I think it would be very cool.

~Adamman