Re: Wikipedia entry on XyWrite

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

E.g., is this (which I didn't edit) correct:
XyWrite does not have as many features as Word or Open Office.

Well. one should add that it has features found in no other app (that I know of), such as wild card search and replace, the ability to store text and formatting code to a macro...

I'm now using a Mac, so XyWrite is not as readily available as it once was, but I often miss three features that I have never found elsewhere:

1) Save/Gets --- on-the-fly bits of text temporarily or permanently attached to hotkeys. I have suggested this to many other programmers. No takers yet.

2) Wild card search & replace --- amazing. And amazingly useful. Why isn't it the norm?

3) Different insert text modes, so that you can insert text in a different mode than the surrounding text without needing to do it by hand --- I'm not sure what this is called, but it is very helpful when I am commenting on student papers.  With it activated, whenever I typed a comment into a student's paper, it would appear in a different mode.

Myron