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- From: penev@venezia (Penio Penev)
- Subject: Re: Documenting
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:02:31 GMT
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- Chuck Eaker (eaker@ukulele.crd.ge.com) wrote:
- : However, the insert commands in typical Forth block editors
- : usually cause a number of characters (equal to the number of
- : inserted characters) at the end of the line or the end of the
- : block to be discarded. This is not true of file based editors.
- : I don't especially care for this block editor behavior.
- : It's an implementation quirk that requires attention, and, in
- : the old days, often distracted me from the real work I was trying
-
- I avoid data loss by pressing the key for UNFLUSH, which copied the
- current screen to a safe location (screen 0) and re-reads the block
- from disk. I have rarely been unhappy about this.
-
- : to do. Running out of room on a block almost always required
- : shuffling the contents of blocks around to free up the next
- : sequential block to avoid fragmentation that would undoubtedly
- : proved to be another distraction later. This was time spent
- : not doing real work.
-
- Coping a range of blocks to a new location is pressing the key for
- MoveBlocks and specifying three numbers. Less that 10 seconds work. On
- a hard disk no other time counts. I've been wacthing myself using this
- function. I do not use it every week. So the time spent in doing it is
- negligible. If I counted this time, I'd also count the time for
- logging into the machine and whatching the Window manager pop up all
- windows.
-
- Again, I do not say, that everybody must use blocks (or FORTH even). I
- say that works fine for me. _Much_ finer, than text files (or C).
-
- -- Penio.
-