Yo Dean!

Thursday October 27 1994 21:36, Werner Geuens wrote to Dean Roddey:

 DR>> I use Rimstar, because it can emulate Brief (as well as other
 DR>> editors) very well, it is very OS/2 savy, its macro language is C so
 DR>> it is easy to write serious macros, it has a built in hex editing
 DR>> mode, its very multithreaded, PM oriented, multi window and multi
 DR>> buffer per window, has syntax coloring,

Can you configure the syntax coloring based on the fileextension?

 DR>> has full support for
 DR>> compiling inside itself, the compilation is asynchronous so you can
 DR>> continue to work, handles column oriented operations (which is a
 DR>> requirement for me),

Does that mean you can mark (highlight) a rectangular block on screen and
then cut/paste/whatever it?

 DR>> allows you to put the cursor on a word and
 DR>> request it be looked up in a list of .INF files you provide.

Again: Can you specify several different lists, and let Rimstar decide
which list to use, based on the fileextension?

How hard/easy is it to change default keymappings and syntax colors?

 WG> Several of those option are included in Boxer/2. But of course Boxer/2 is
 WG> not PM, which can make a big difference. I'm sold on Boxer/2, but would
 WG> sure like to try Rimstar and check it out. I had never heard of it, is it
 WG> free-, share- or payware ?

Werner: Same questions apply to you about Boxer/2.

At the moment I use Multi-Edit, a D*S-based editor. It does all of the
above, but as it is D*S-based, it doesn't support HPFS-drives (long
filenames and EA's).  :-(  So I'm looking for an OS/2-editor, preferably
PM, but anything goes, as long as I get the same functionality as in
Multi-Edit.

If anybody else out there has some suggestions, I'm all ears.

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