DOS/Win3.X Text Editors

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat Feb 5 17:34:16 2005

On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:

> 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.

and Sort rows by the column block selected! That is it sorts only the
lines that
are part of the column block and sorts them by the text in the column.

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Received on Sat Feb 05 2005 - 17:34:16 GMT

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