Re: Edit multiple copies of a file

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

> >As for editing parts of the same file in 2 windows and making sure changes
> >in both are saved, PC-Write, which a decade ago reached perfection of its
> >kind, did it neatly. Every time you change from Window 1 to Window 2, the
> >version of the same file in Window 1 is automatically saved, and vice versa.
>
I'm not sure about PC-Write, but Borland's short-lived Sprint (and
several share-ware editors, too) allow you to open two "windows" on
the _same_ copy of the _same_ file, so that you're viewing/editing
different parts of the same document (or memory space, I suppose).
Nothing is saved to disk until you tell it to save, and then (like
XyWrite) it saves the whole thing --- there being only one "thing" in
the first place.

This is something I have urged XyQuest / TTG to incorporate
(to no avail, of course). I find it extremely useful when trying to
(re)establish consistency in fairly lengthy documents. [I hesitate
to add that Microsoft's Word has done this since it was a DOS program...]

Myron