Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site crystal.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!crystal!bill From: bill@crystal.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: The apple public-domain editor Message-ID: <496@crystal.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 20:10:07 EDT Article-I.D.: crystal.496 Posted: Sun Aug 4 20:10:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:17:29 EDT References: <261@snow.warwick.UUCP> <909@yale.ARPA> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 43 > [I can't believe this bug is still around] > > This is a followup to an article about 'Edit', Apple's public-domain > editor which comes with MDS, Aztec C, and presumably several other > programming languages. I have been using Edit heavily for the past few > months as part of my Aztec-C system, on a 128K Mac ... > I have been greatly inconvenienced by its bugs. Many > times Edit has pretended to save a file when actually it doesn't, so > when I reopen the file I have lost all my changes. Edit has also been > known to munge, chew up, and generally destroy files to an extent that I > always have to keep backups of everything and never know when I'm going > to lose data. Also, it seems to be lacking in error checks for low > memory, because I can easily crash the system by opening too many > windows, keeping a large file in memory, changing the font on a large > file, etc. In general, Edit has been a source of much grief for me. I I have also had problems with Edit. PLEASE MENTION VERSION WHEN YOU POST AN ARTICLE ! ! ! I have three versions so far: 10/24/84, 12/12/84, and 1/15/85 (which came with the new Aztec C update last week). the 12/12 version cost me 40 lines of editing (even though I back up regularly, I quit by doing "Save", which did a REVERT, and it was too late...). I sure hope a certain C compiler written by the same guy has been debugged a little better... Any other known bugs? Anybody have a more recent version than 1/15/85? Please mail me, and I'll summarize. Is there a more current version with the CompuServe Supplement? bill William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@uwisc ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill