Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Seeking opinions on "CView" Windows C code editor
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 14:36:50 GMT
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James Seidman <jls@hsv3.UUCP> writes:
>> Anyway, has anyone used [CView]?  Is it reliable?  Robust?  It seems very
>> reasonably priced.  (Especially for a Windows app!  :-)  )

> I certainly wouldn't buy version 1.0, which is what they've shipping now.
> It sounds good except for the fact that it has a maximum file size of 34 KB!

Yeah, it looks like a kiddie editor.  32K, no MDI, no macros, no regular
expressions, no keyboard remapping ...  the only good thing is the license
agreement which even lets you use the source in a commercial product (as long
as it's not an editor)!

I'm *still* looking for a good editor for Windows!  Neither CView nor the
one from Houston Code Works is a sufficiently "real" editor for me; and I
haven't been impressed by the few commercial products, either.

Well, let's see, if I take STEVIE and change the event handling and...  :)

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ "i don't even know what street canada is on"               -- al capone ]
