On Thursday 12-29-1994, Peter Hansen wrote to Kurt Westerfeld about
"Editor.:"

  PH>  KW>The absolute best PM editor I have found (by far--nothing comes even
  PH>  KW>close) is MicroEdge's Visual SlickEdit for OS/2.  
  PH>  
  PH>  Kurt, can you give a few lines summarizing its primary
  PH>  features?  The main feature for _any_ OS/2 editor as far as I'm
  PH>  concerned is how well it supports REXX macros.  I have no
  PH>  intention of learning 19 different macro languages under OS/2
  PH>  so if an editor doesn't do REXX well it doesn't make the cut. 
  PH>  How does VSE handle macros?   (Thanks. :) 

Absolutely, Peter.

VSE features:
    1. Many different keyboard emulations, including Brief, CUA, Epsilon
and vi.  The keyboard mapping dialog is really well designed,
allowing me to do my custom keyboard mapping I developed for Q
Edit/Brief/CUA in about a day (it doesn't take this long if you work
hard at it--my needs were *real* picky).     2. Smartpaste, which affects
cutting and pasting code.  It autoindents the pasted code into the
proper place.     3. C/C++ syntax hilighting.     4. Great procedure tagging
with a bookmark/context stack similar to Visual C++.  This is an
absolute dream.     5. Global search/replace with regular expressions,
etc.     6. A concurrent process buffer for background compiles.  Error
parsing is done real well with IBM C Set/2++.  I haven't tried any
other compiler, but it also works with grep.     7. A file manager mode.     8.
C/C++ keyword expansion (very configurable)     9. Keyboard alias
expansion     10. A built in dialog editor.  This can be used to change
any dialog in the entire editor *ON THE FLY*.  This is where the
"visual" part of the editor really shines....you get an event driven
macro language that is C-like (sorry, it isn't REXX by it was evolved
from REXX, so there's a PARSE command.  It's really not bad at all). 
You have to experience this part of the editor to really understand,
but suffice it to say that this is mondo-cool.     11. Spell checking and
word processing modes.     12. Cross platform support (Visual Slick Edit
is on Windows and Windows NT.  The char-mode version is on >20
platforms)     13.  Language support for C, C++, Fortran, Basic, DBase,
Modula-2, Assembly, Cobol and Ada (from the Advertisement) as well as
their macro language.  You can add your own (ie, REXX).     14. A really
nice, configurable toolbar (you can add your own bitmaps).

       Kurt Westerfeld
       Team OS/2

 * KWQ/2 1.2i * Hey Bill, you better start coding those OS/2 Apps!

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