(C) JASON KRUEGER
Early at night,
about 00:22
Text editors.
What prompted me to write this article was:
current situation - a lot of electronic
Denmark publishes editor reviews for Co-
vox, Sound Drive, AY, and about assemblers and
there is nothing to say - everyone is the most seedy
the newspaper considers it its duty to prophesy them
censor. But about text editor-
oh I can't hear anything. There was, however, something in
ZX Review, but it’s more likely to present a list to
him. With today's diversity of all kinds
possible EDs, WORDs, etc., to the inexperienced
it will be difficult for the user to immediately choose a convenient one
editor, and buy everything in the hope
stumbling upon what you need is also not yours...
move. Trying not to fall into criticism and
don't engage in free advertising, I'm trying to
tried to pretend to be hyper-objective and not
looking at the personalities (authors) give a brief
review of each of the known (to me) technologies
stovyh editors.
1.WinWord.
Actually, this program bears little resemblance to the same
exchange EDITOR for pussy. She looks like
ZX/IBM, but the functions differ greatly
Actually - several built-in fonts, widely
text paint, sprite insertion, formatting
tion and othersbells and whistles. However, for the editor-
it is of little use for testing, because if you build
ka has more than 42 characters, then the end of it
will not be visible - the right border will not shift -
yes.So, this is more of a preparation utility
texts with sprites in some magazines
ly or newspapers (it, in principle, was created
to write the magazine "OBERON"). Read
texts edited in it in any way
If it were a standard viewer I wouldn’t do it -
control codes are boring. Of course, you can
do not use coloring of words and do not
how many fonts are there in one text, but then the best
Should you use some other program?
frame.
2.MicroED 3.30
One of the most sophisticated and functional
editors that I have seen.Various-
New bookmarks, PCT markers, many modes
formatting, built-in help, buffer for
erased lines (in case you restore
you will need) and, the coolest thing, a converter,
with which you can translate text
from any encoding: MicroED 2.xx, TLW 2,
PC (several options), Is-Dos, Gens, etc.
The editor comes with several utilities:
installer, using cat. can be installed
select the desired key layout, the driver is
tera (which does not plow in version 3.30) etc.
The application also includes Cutter - a program for
splitting files that are too long. One
in a word, a miracle of nature and coding, the fifth element
ment of the world of editors, ideal... Would be like this,
if onlymore than one problem - everyone’s favorite font
4x8, which spoiled the whole impression.
Of course, I don’t argue, it’s cool when on the screen
a lot of information, but... did you try to read
"Steel Rat" in DEPTH #1? No? And not
try... the letters A and D are not much different
from each other, Yu, Sh, Sh merge with all the main
steel. Approximately the same picture in
MicroED. Not that I'm complaining about the bad
vision, but sit with your nose buried in the monitor
Thor is also not cool. (Kruger, you have
After all, it’s not a monitor, but a free TV!!!
approx. Eraser).
3.BK Write.
Again, a bunch of bells and whistles - autotransfers, for-
mothers of the text, in short, gentlemanly language
boron, characteristic of all Editors, starting
with Reds (sold with Delta-S included)
Xia). In general, there is nothing to write about here, many
functions are the same as Dystrophic (MicroED)
and also a bummer with the font, only a few in
the other side is an 8x8 matrix. The result of the transfer
initial - thick letters, information in lines
ke little. Moreover, unprecedented topmozzhy-
when viewing a text, they make it ideal
real instrument of torture (try it
the text is 30 kilobytes to read... and
better force the enemy). Sorry Torquemada
I didn’t live to see it - they saved a lot of wood
would...
4.IS-Dos Editor.
Cool stuff too. In addition to standard forms
there are such useful mothersfunctions like
macros (i.e. you can program
frequently repeated word when pressed
no key and then call it directly from
editor), font 6x8, and, most importantly,
feature - ability to edit
texts of any length (the main thing is that on disk
got in). There are no problems with the leaflet either.
children, the system has a built-in, and the entire
Ma not bad. However, even here there are some
some unpleasant moments - frame around
screen, because of which it is not convenient to edit
write texts written in 42 characters - on
The screen only fits 41 and the last letter
not visible. In addition, the IS Dos system itself
completely kills disks, especially 5.25. After
two to three months of using this "disco-killer"
yatsy",it will not be possible to format the floppy disk
by no means. However, if you are cool
people and you have a computer with a meter on your desk
memory and screw, then all the troubles disappear.
By the way, IS-DOS contains a cool printer with
a bunch of all kinds of drivers, as well as
driver for screw, pisyukov keyboard, non-
so many layouts of Russian letters, all sorts of caches,
ramdisks, but can also work with
48 kilobyte perversion (Sorry,
guys...)
5. ZX/IBM Editor
One of the simplest (in a good way)
words) text editors. Roughly speaking,
This is a copy of the editor from NC. Minimum clutter
tov - only block operations and operations
search/replace,user-friendly interface, matrix
6x8, no frames, standard pussy-
what kind of encoding... In a word, just like
Fuck and understandable as Ass. From troubles you can
highlight the "uncool" directory output and bummer
with Quit function. True, in version 1+, which
Paradise walks around the country under the name EDITOR2,
this crap has been fixed, but text
the file is given the extension "W" (why
this?!!).Yes, and one more joke I'm talking about
I found out quite recently and quite by accident (not
I shoved that floppy disk into the diskette) - ZX/IBM...
can read text files with MS-DOS dis-
kov. As a result, it turned out that ERASER knew
about this for a long time, but remained silent like a heretic under
torture, but we had to with the converter
fuck... well, in general, suffer...
5.1 ZX Turbo Assembler 3.0 (ZASM)
Actually, this is an assembler (what kind of
discovery ;-)), but insofar as in
It has an editing function
text and it is written on the basis of ZX/IBM, I
I considered it necessary to talk about this program.
All ZX/IBM functions are duplicated in ZASM
we. Of the new ones, the following can be distinguished - two
keyboard layouts (YTSUKEN and YAVERTS), settings
ka colors, font download (in the application
9 fonts are given, but 7 of them are completely unclean
report card), UNDO function - bringing spoilage
hardened line in its original form and cal-
culator (INSPECT function). More complete
you will find a description in the "ReadMe" file,which is included with the assembler. Printed-
ka, unfortunately, is not implemented in this version -
on.
6.ZX-Word.
I know some comrades who consider-
melt that thing - "the best-ever-
or-was-implemented-on-Spectrum", one-
my opinion about this editore is extremely negative
useful. Judging by the menu, this is an analogue of the famous
nogo Lexicon on the PC, but before the prototype this
the thing clearly falls short. This moron again
lizm 4x8, riddle of the century "how to get to the menu",
the only advantage is Pisyukov's co-
the dividing is completely blocked by troubles,
problems and shortcomings. More about him
I can’t say, because... I remember him poorly - he was
I've had it for a long time, it didn't last long and
was destroyed as unnecessary.
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