system: You are Joe Souza, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Qedit message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "RE: TSE feedback and questions".

They wrote:
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> From: 	Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au[SMTP:Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, December 09, 1997 8:13 PM
> To: 	tsepro@semware.com
> Subject: 	TSE feedback and questions
>
> Hello Semware,
>
> I have some feedback & questions regarding  TSE 2.5 and 2.8.
>
> I love TSE 2.5 and continue to use it as my editor of choice under Win95.
> Although I upgraded to 2.6/2.8 I was a bit disappointed with some
> aspects of the product.
>
> So, hope you don't mind a bit of feedback...
>
> 1. TSE 2.8 is MUCH slower at responding to keystrokes like CursorUp/Down
> and
>  PageUp/Down. TSE 2.5 is VERY responsive and fast in this regard. Also,
> I used a keyboard accelerator (Hyperkey) to really make 2.5 fly.
> Unfortunately, TSE 2.8 does not get accelerated by this TSR.
>
> So, I'd like to make a suggestion. Another editor I use (begrudgingly)
> is called Codewright. It has a feature where the user can
> enable/disable special keyboard acceleration from within the editor. It
> accelerates the keyboard waaay beyond 32 chars per second which is
> really great and can be adjusted to suit yourself. CW is a true
> Win95/NT product. If CW can do it, why not TSE 2.X?
> IMHO its a fantastic feature - not a gimmick - and does wonders for
> productivity.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> 2. I am very attached to TSE 2.5's 36-line video mode. Unfortunately,
> TSE 2.8 won't allow me to go fullscreen when in 36 line mode. That was
> a real pain. I guess that will be addressed when a TSE for Windows is
> released.
>
> 3. Full marks for TSE 2.8's syntax highlighting implementation. Whilst,
> I think Ian Campbell did a great job of the old one, its nice the new
> one parses the actual text
> buffer.
>
> I have one suggestion though. There are some languages (like dBase etc)
> that have BOL comment delimiters like this:
>
> 	*    This is a comment , TSE colors me green.
>
> The asterisk is treated as a comment ONLY if it appears as the
> firstnonwhite char.
>
> However, the asterisk is also a math operator. So in the following
> example, the
> text '* delta' would appear as a green comment. eg.
>
> 	alpha = beta *  delta
>
> There is no way around this except to provide a new comment delimiter
> type which has the special attribute that it applies only to BOL
> comments. In fact I had to make  this very same mod to Ian Campbell's
> color.asm in TSE 2.5.
>
> That's all for feedback.
>
> I know you hate to talk about what Semware is developing next, but boy
> I'm curious. I don't want to know WHEN but I sure would like to know
> WHAT your directions are.
>
> I've got a lot of belief in you guys. Keep up the great work.
>
> Love to hear from you,
>
> Ross Boyd
>
> <Ross_Boyd@tnt.com.au>
>
>

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From: Joe Souza <joes@MICROSOFT.com>
To speed up your keyboard under Win95, you may increase the Repeat Rate and
decrease the Repeat Delay in the Keyboard Control Panel.  You may also use
the MODE command from a command prompt.  I have the following line in my
AUTOEXEC.BAT:
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\mode con: rate=32 delay=1
This makes keyboard input as fast as it can be.