Steve,
Regarding your message dated: 17 September 2000...
SL> That is the Microsoft standard, not /A/ standard. There is a big
SL> difference. AFAIK the CUA (a standard) defines what keystrokes do, not editor
SL> behavior. There is a difference.
True enough but given that TB! runs under Windows exclusively (unless
I really missing something...) then I think it is fair to assume that
the Windows Keystroke standard is an acceptable common standard that
everyone already knows... it may not be a pleasant fact but I'm sure
it's true.
For curiosity's sake, I just looked at the options available in
TextPad which is my preferred Windows editor for all my other text
manipulation tasks. Textpad offers the following choices...
TextPad
Brief
IBM Personal Editor
Microsoft Applications
Textpad 2
Wordstar
I would assume that the target to hit to make the most users happy is
the 4th one - the Microsoft Applications - given that it covers the
most bases on a Windows platform. I don't know if any of the above
approach the CUA standard you mentioned but I recall from the days I
had to edit files under unix on a regular basis that I really disliked
the emacs based editors because the keystrokes required were
completely alien to me. Yes, I know that emacs can adopt Windows like
functionality and that it probably is the most ultra-extensible editor
in the world but I ended up using either nEdit for its Windows-like
keystroke compatibility or vim if the job was quick and simple.
I guess we'll not get anywhere without an editor that suits our own
preferences but for the majority of windows users that does mean 'what
they already know' and TB! isn't that. If they don't have the
time/inclination to learn then they'll pass it over. I'm glad I
invested the time to learn the editor - it's a benfit to me but maybe
I'm just one of the lucky ones...
Cheers,
Mark
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