Subj : FSE in BAJA
To   : Darryl
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Mar 04 2001 05:37 am

RE: FSE in BAJA
BY: Darryl to Digital Man on Sun Mar 04 2001 11:03 am

>  > External editors simply create a text file (the name of which is usually
>  > on the command line). No "message base" knowledge is necessary.
>  > Uh.. do you know any other programming languages? :-)
>
> Let me ask you this.  What about expanding on the internal line editor to gi
> it more of a fse feel.

Since it's open source, you have that option.

> I haven't looked at the code yet, but it should be
> possible to either expand on it or add an internal fse.

Possible, but I strongly believe that a full-screen editor is a big enough
effort to justify being implemented as a separate program.

> It seems (to me) like
> it would be faster than an external fse.

Not true. If the external editor was deeloped as a 32-bit WinSock application,
it would (or rather could, depending the implementation) have exactly the same
perfomance as an internal editor.

> I know that you have other things
> that you are working on right now, so I don't expect it to be top priority f
> you.

Right. It's actually already on the to-do list.

> The question is who would be interested in helping me expand on this?  Like
> they always say: Two heads are better than one, or better yet 3 or 4.  :)

I strongly recommend getting the latest XSDK and a 32-bit C/C++ compiler
and working on an external fse. Don't use OpenDoors if you can help it.

Rob

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