From: Sammy Mitchell 
Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au wrote:
> 1. TSE 2.8 is MUCH slower at responding to keystrokes like CursorUp/Down 
nd
>  PageUp/Down. TSE 2.5 is VERY responsive and fast in this regard. Also,
This one is a tough one.  On Windows NT, v2.8 is very competitive with v2.5,
and I can not tell any real difference.
On many Windows 95 installations, it is the same story.  However, on some
installations of Windows 95, there is a definite lag in the keyboard
processing of console mode programs.
For instance, at work, I have a Windows 95 machine, and v2.8 is very
responsive.  However, on my home machine (with Windows 95), there is a
noticeable performance decrease in keyboard processing speed for win32
console applications.
Bottom line is, I do not know what causes it, and I do not know what to do
about it.  win32 GUI apps do not seem to exhibit this problem, so once we
release the win32 GUI version of TSE Pro, the problem will be solved for
many users.
> I used a keyboard accelerator (Hyperkey) to really make 2.5 fly.
> Unfortunately, TSE 2.8 does not get accelerated by this TSR.
>
> So, I'd like to make a suggestion. Another editor I use (begrudgingly)
> is called Codewright. It has a feature where the user can
> enable/disable special keyboard acceleration from within the editor. It
> accelerates the keyboard waaay beyond 32 chars per second which is
> really great and can be adjusted to suit yourself. CW is a true
> Win95/NT product. If CW can do it, why not TSE 2.X?
> IMHO its a fantastic feature - not a gimmick - and does wonders for
> productivity.
>
> What do you think?
There is a macro qkeys, that was developed for TSE Pro DOS that does this.
I have ported it to TSE Pro win32.  I'll post it on our ftp site.  The name
will be qkeys32.zip.  Should be there by late this afternoon.  It works fine
for me on my work machine, but I have not tested on my home machine.
> 2. I am very attached to TSE 2.5's 36-line video mode. Unfortunately,
> TSE 2.8 won't allow me to go fullscreen when in 36 line mode. That was
> a real pain. I guess that will be addressed when a TSE for Windows is 
released.
v2.8 fully supports 36 line mode in a window.  However, win32 (apparently) 
limits
win32 console applications to 25/43/50 lines in full screen mode.  So if you
want 36 lines (or 55 lines, or 104 columns, or whatever), run v2.8 in a
window.
> I have one suggestion though. There are some languages (like dBase etc)
> that have BOL comment delimiters like this:
>
> 	*    This is a comment , TSE colors me green.
>
> The asterisk is treated as a comment ONLY if it appears as the
> firstnonwhite char.
>
> However, the asterisk is also a math operator. So in the following
> example, the
> text '* delta' would appear as a green comment. eg.
>
> 	alpha = beta *  delta
>
> There is no way around this except to provide a new comment delimiter
> type which has the special attribute that it applies only to BOL
> comments. In fact I had to make  this very same mod to Ian Campbell's
> color.asm in TSE 2.5.
I've added this to my syntax hiliting todo list.
> I know you hate to talk about what Semware is developing next, but boy
> I'm curious. I don't want to know WHEN but I sure would like to know
> WHAT your directions are.
Our main project is a win32 GUI version.  Side projects that I work on when
I get stuck with the GUI (there is a pun in there somewhere) are:
- a 'portable' 32-bit version of v2.8+ (2.9 is the current in-house
version).  This version currently runs under win32 console, win32 GUI, DOS
protected mode (e.g., requires a 386/486), and comes up but crashes under
OS/2.  Not all things work under all versions, for instance, mouse support
does not work in the DOS32 version, and wouldn't work in the OS/2 version
even if I could get it to load.  I would eventually like to get this one
working under linux, both console and x-windows.  But, I have more wishes
than I have time, it seems.  As an aside, the DOS32 version works really
well.  It is a shame we did not do something like this 3 or 4 years ago.  Oh
well!
All of these versions have undo, with redo still in the works.
Sammy
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