PETER HANSEN wrote something original about Editor.


PH> Kurt, can you give a few lines summarizing its primary features? 
PH> The main feature for _any_ OS/2 editor as far as I'm concerned is
PH> how well it supports REXX macros.  I have no intention of learning
PH> 19 different macro languages under OS/2 so if an editor doesn't do
PH> REXX well it doesn't make the cut.

Since you're looking for an editor that supports REXX macros, I'll
mention Kedit, from Mansfield Software, which uses a subset of REXX
(called KEXX) as it's native macro language, and, in the OS/2 version,
can use genuine REXX too, even with REXXUTIL functions.  It is text
mode and runs in an OS/2 window or full screen (not PM), can handle
multiple files (about 100) at once and split screen display up to 8
files at once.  You can select for display and manipulation all lines
which match some pattern (the pattern: 'print' & word 'i' would get
'fprintf("%4d",i);' and 'fprintf("\n"); i++;', but not
'fprintf("%4i",d);').

However, it will not display different parts of C syntax in different
colors.  Nor will it give you any easy way to use Bold, Italic or
underlined characters, or any other formatting.  It is purely a text
editor, but the best one I've ever seen.  When debugging programs with
subtle logic bugs, I've used it to make sense of output files as large
as 10MB.

 * KWQ/2 1.2g * Seduced by the dark chocolate side of the force


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