Early DOS editors

[9000 VAX]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:45:22 -0500 (EST), John Lawson <jpl15 at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> I used QEdit for years - loved it as much as Wordstar - absolutely
> text-basede, "you can do anything anywhere" 'rules'...  I used it mainly
> for text editing, but it was first and foremost a Programmer's Editor, and
> had extensive tools and structures to help in that scenario.
> 
>    I still have the source disks and manual around here somewhere...

QEdit is very good and I used it extensively years ago.

Now I use vi under DOS, The vi (and the associated grep, mv, cp, ls,
more, ...) I found from an vintage FAT disk is very good. I don't know
who wrote them. When you program under DOS, grep is precious.

vax, 9000

> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
> 
>