Re: text editor

["Lance.Leighnor" <Lance.Leighnor@YELLOWCORP.COM>]

Not to revive a dead topic, but... (and its Friday)

Many of these editors everyone mentioned edit the file in memory only. And
once you run out of memory, you've effectively reached the limit of the
filesize you can edit.

I know KEDIT is like this as was its parent Xedit. I can't tell you for sure
about all the others, but some such as VEDIT do their editing based in work
files, thus effectively being able to edit as much as you've got disk to
play with. The SPF family of editors does this as well as VEDIT. I haven't
tested enough of the others here to know for sure.

I did download JEDIT...and about the only thing I'll say is the price is
right. I found out that when I installed the Java runtime needed for it on
my windows box, it took out most of the other Java applet functionality
within IE (5.5). It also is S.L.O.W.! Maybe great for cross-platform work,
but it took a while to load even a small file on my NT 4.0 system. Many
other editors are far far faster.

Lance Leighnor
Senior Development Analyst - Payroll
Yellow Technologies
mailto:Lance.Leighnor@YellowCorp.com
(913) 344-5364


-----Original Message-----
From: Malin, Andrew [mailto:andrew.malin@AU.UNISYS.COM]
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 7:11 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: text editor


Jarrod,

> I still think JEdit is the best, it has SQR syntax highlighting
> and you can also download heaps of different pluggins.  And it's
> a good price to.. Free!

Interesting. I downloaded both UltraEdit & jEdit.

When loading the same file (size = 27k), UltraEdit uses up 2000K of memory
while jEdit (ver 3.2.2) uses up 24,140K. That is a huge amount for an
editor.

I wasn't able to find the plugins for SQR for jEdit.

But yes, I like the jEdit cost - although, UltraEdit is only $AUD80-!

Andrew