On Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:15:06 AM Christian Groessler wrote: > On 03/16/17 15:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Well, I did, and I didn't ;-) That was on the order of 15 years ago. > > Problems that I can remember centered around fonts, font sizes, > > readability, and compatibility with my past experiences (which, by that > > time in my life, were mostly Dos / Window editors--in particular, I > > loved (I think the name was qedit--if there is a qedit now on Linux, I > > think it is something different than I remember). > > > > And, indeed, I might be misremembering the name. It was a shareware > > editor, and one of the few shareware programs I kept using (and paid > > for). > > I'm remembering qedit (just "q" on the command line). It was a nice, > clean, and fast, DOS editor.
Chris, Ahh, yes, thanks--that was it! > I was using BRIEF under DOS back then for programming, but for quick > edits I was using q. I encountered BRIEF, but, iirc, it was not free, and a little expensive for my tastes at the time. > It's successor is the "semware editor", but sadly, just for Windows. Well, very rarely I do touch Windows, but--well, vaguely--I think I've heard of semware (and /or the semware editor). Each time I (have to) touch Windows, I hope it is the last ;-) regards, Randy Kramer
