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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
thanks Dennis!!
I honestly don't remember VDE. But geeze are we dating our creaky old selves or what? hahaha I'm a lot like you anymore, I don't need full on word processing. In fact I wrote a simple text editor for my business needs and use EditPad for a lot of my other not taking and other needs. Funny how times have changed over the years in this area. Even WordPad is way more powerful than I need more than a few times a year.
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Tell me more about the editor you wrote? (Do it as a PM or VM, rather than in this thread.)
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What I loved about Ami Pro was the drawing tools, the thing had Bezier curves when apps like Photoshop and CorelDraw were just thinking about it. Add to that it was XML before that became the trend. Plus there were the powerhouse that could, ya had to love anyone who bucked the MS and Wordperfect legions.  It also had a spiffy equation editor though I used MathCad in college for that purpose. 
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I'm betwixt and between. From my POV, the difference between a text editor and a word processor is the end result. A text editor assumes the end product is a file on disk. A word processor assumes the end product is a printed page, and provides functions to control the appearance.
If I need to control the appearance, chances are I'm doing a publication, and need full DTP.
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And REALLY thanks for that link about text editors. I still have my old Borland IDE for building your own word processing app, I forget the name of it at the moment.
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Text Editor Toolbox, I believe.
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Had loads of fun with it. Heck I even have a great SoundEx routine I wrote in, get this, dbase III (well, Foxpro 1.x anyway, well before that it was dbase III but in the QNX dbase clone). It's all on floppy somewhere, if I could only find a real floppy drive!!
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They make USB floppy drives. I have one that came with an old notebook.
My desktop has a combo half-height 3.5+5.25 floppy drive. I still have some 360KB MS-DOS floppies.
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Have you noticed that people today, even developers, seem to have forgotten that data entry is far faster using keyboard shortcuts than mousing. It's why I have longed for real from the ground up touch devices and apps. Odd they still haven't mastered text entry. Maybe before I die, but as that could be any day I might miss that bit of fun.
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Most of the flood of new tablets coming out seem assume communication will be one way - you'll be getting stuff from the net. If I get one, the first accessory purchase will be a folding bluetooth keyboard for data entry.
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Dennis