Hey Kees!

 KvE> Why do you think the message editors are doing something
 KvE> different?

Mainly from past experience using those editors but also from reading source
code and from comfiguration files.  At present I am using vim with WeBeBashing
and the only format I am deploying is the modified MSG format which could
easily be set up with any text editor.  I personally prefer using the best
which happens to be vim.

----- ':read !vim --version | head -n3' starts
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Jun  4 2017 05:00:07)
Included patches: 1-586
Compiled by root@lilmikey
----- ':read !vim --version | head -n3' ends

As you can see it is a very recent build.  Offhand I think I preferred 7.4 but
maybe I just need to get used to the newest version.  One thing I've noticed it
is much leaner than the previous versions, or at least 7.4.

Bottomline is that the editor cannot deal with either squish or jam formats
without some filter in between.  Also I've noticed that when viewing those
files in vim utf-8 characters are improperly displayed.  Viewing raw squish
files - raw pkt's as well - works best in mcedit from my observations thus far.

How about you?  What would you recommend especially considering proper handling
of utf-8?

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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