Re: ASCII Editor

garyr wrote:
> There was a thread on the above subject on Dec 27. I mentioned that I
> had
> written such a program and if there was any interest I would update the
> copy on my ISP server. There was and I did and posted an announcement
> to that effect on Dec 30. There have been no replies to that post so I
> assume, because it appeared immediately before the holiday, that it was
> overlooked by those few who might have been interested in it. If so, it
> can
> be found here:
> <http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_thread/thread/b0a879cc13df8745/4bb35e2714323578?hl=en#4bb35e2714323578>

Tried it but gave up. I'm on Win2k so I don't know if this is an OS
compatibility issue. I just can't get the cursor to go where I wanted.
It works fine if all you want to use are the predefined graphics but it
doesn't work when I just want use the plain old keyboard. I had to use
a workaround of placing a single 'line' where I wanted to type to get
the cursor where I wanted. I believe that an ASCII editor should first
and foremost be a text editor and have 'graphic' handling capabilities
as an added feature (remember, this is me, the one who draws schematics
using windows notepad).

.

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