#Editor RWar
09-Mar-90 22:09:18
Sb: #93440-#Editor RWar
Fm: Lloyd W. Dull III 74555,736
To: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
Thomas,
Hard drive users hopefully wouldn't have to worry about the "disk
full" message. Floppy users would be masochists to be using WordPerfect as
an editor anyway ;^).
GAWD, if I had programs that made use of the full 250 character line
length "limit", I think I'd go nuts trying to read/edit/debug that thing.
Line lengths that fit within the SCREEN – or at least a PRINTED PAGE – are
more to my liking. That may just be a personal preferences though.
Most of the source code I work with is alphanumeric anyway, so there
is no big problem there. I'd want to save the file as a TEXT FILE, rather
than in WordPerfect's file format. I suspect it would drive most compilers
pretty bonkers trying to figure THAT out!
P.S. WP has an "editor" on their LIBRARY disk, I believe. I don't
have it, so I can't say if it will edit "unlimited" length files – or be
any better handling the "problem" areas you mentioned.
And I *don't* use WordPerfect as a programming editor, in case you
were likely to ask.
Lloyd