Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcvax!ukc!lime!houti!ariel!hou5f!npoiv!alice!mhtsa!eagle!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Rand Editor Message-ID: <203@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Apr-83 21:49:06 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.203 Posted: Fri Apr 8 21:49:06 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 03:56:38 EDT References: sri-arpa.818 Lines: 15 If it's a sufficiently old version of the Rand Editor, my suggestion is "forget it". It has to be one of the worst C programs I have ever seen, with a 14-page loop with a bowl of linguine for a control structure, "goto"s all over the place. The code to provide "terminal-independence" is a mess too; I had to work quite a while on it before discovering that the problem with it on a VT100 is the VT100's unusual autowrap mode. Besides, who wants an editor that wastes disk space and programmer patience by turning tabs into spaces? It throws away information; our "ev" editor and "vi" both record the fact that you hit the TAB key while typing in text by stuffing a TAB character into the text. Guy Harris RLG Corporation {seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!guy