Re: Proposed Assembler Commands

On Mon, 02 May 2005 01:09:21 -0400, Mike Monett wrote:

> keith wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > My editor is the old Borland SPRINT editor from 1988. It ran on the
>> > first IBM PC's at 4.77MHz, and it runs great on a 200MHz machine. I
>> > expect it will still run long after I'm gone:)
>>
>> My fav editor gave up the ghost about then. I loved EPM, but it went the
>> way of 16bit addressing. I still try to find E-like editors.
>>
>> Keith
>
> You can program SPRINT to emulate just about any kind of editor, from Wordstar
> to EMACS and everything in between.

<snip>

> If you have had any experience writing your own editor, you will find it
> very difficult to use a "store-bought" one with canned commands that may
> not do what you need.

The *last* thing I want to do is program an editor. COnfiguring one is
bad enough. I don't much like making hammers and straightening nails
either. I've been using MED on Windows, and VE (though I don't like it) on
*IX for some time.

--
Keith
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Keith
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