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> : >Personally, I swore by GPLE and swore at Program Writer.

GPLE was my choice for many years (from well before Program Writer was
written). It was simply brilliant, especially if you took advantage of the
macros. And I remember being less than impressed the first time I saw
Program Writer. However, in the end GPLE was still a *LINE* editor.

Eventually I took on some contract work for a largish number of Applesoft
programs, and I bit the bullet and started using Program Writer. There were
a couple of things that I missed, but the 80-20 rule applied - I was 80%
better off for losing 20% of things I liked.

But it wasn't so bad anyway, because it was entirely possible to run both
GPLE *AND* Program Writer at the same time! Do the broad-brush, big-picture
editing in Program Writer, and down-and-dirty Applesoft run-and-edit stuff
using GPLE. The overhead meant it couldn't be done with every program, but
that was true of either editor by itself.
--
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)