Re: about lpe

[Birger Langkjer <birger.langkjer@image.dk>]

Den søn, 25 apr 1999 skrev du:
> jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:

...
> No.  I asked about edit.com clones.  The reason is simple.
> edit.com looks and works exactly like notepad.exe & kedit & kwrite
> & wordperfect & ... you get where I'm going ?  All the GUI editors
> have the same appearance and behavior as edit.com.  MS even changed
> the key bindings for cut, copy and past to match Windows/KDE standard.
>
It's very important not to change the way people are used to working, not even
if you think your way is better. It should be anathema, unless you have a
REALLY good reason. This is a problem with lpe: Ctrl+Q is 'Save to an alternate
file' in lpe, 'quit' in KDE, 'q' is usually associated with quit. Ctrl+X is
'save and exit', but 'X' is often associated with 'eXit'. Usually if people are
dropped in a program without reading the documentation, they will try a number
of costumary commands. If those commands do something dangerous, bad things will
happen.

> > I forgot about static linking.  I have looked at slang and lpe would be
> > still smaller than VI
> > 
> > > lpe is only  96493, /bin/vi is 437428 (I suppose vi can be compiled to fill
> > > less)
> > >
> > 
> > I suspect it has curses compiled statitic in it.
> 
> For shame.  How did MS make the Win95 version so small :)
> ls -l edit.com -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69886 Jul 11  1995 edit.com 
> 
A very good question.
A statically linked lpe is actually >800 K  :-)
I don't know how to bring that down. Maybe some old Atari programmers can give
advice :-)

...
> I'll look at lpe ... if I can find it.
http://cdsmith.twu.net/lpe/index.html

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mvh/best regards
Birger Langkjer
birger.langkjer@image.dk
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