DOS/Win3.X Text Editors

From: Jim Leonard <trixter_at_oldskool.org>
Date: Sat Feb 5 12:57:17 2005

Ron Hudson wrote:
> There was a big war between Micro-emacs and Semware's Q edit
> in my own mind, finally Qedit won at the time because it
> did had a mode where you could draw out line characters with
> the cursor keys

And highlight blocks by columns as well as rows, I remember that being a major
selling point. Today Qedit is now called The Semware Editor and if you get the
"jr." version it still works incredibly well on a 4.77MHz 8088.
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Received on Sat Feb 05 2005 - 12:57:17 GMT

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