jicman wrote:
> In article <opsmkl5qje23k2f5@ally>, Regan Heath says...
> 
> 
>>>Ok, this is interesting Windows at its best!  I have to completely  retype that
>>>whole program! :-)  Not a good thing.
>>
>>What? Why? Can't you open it, then do a save-as, or copy/paste into  another editor then do a save-as?
> 
> 
> :-)  I know exactly how you said that> :-)
> 
> Yes, I tried that.  I even opened the same program with notepad (that's as
> Windows as Windows can get) and tried to compile it and got the same error.
> Somehow, my dual keyboard system does not like those accented vowels.  I am now
> searching for a new editor.  I love vim, but this is going too far.

Here is my UTF-part of _vimrc:

set bomb
set ff=unix
set enc=utf-8 fileencodings=


Lars Ivar Igesund

In article <cvft8k$s5q$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
>
>Here is my UTF-part of _vimrc:
>
>set bomb
>set ff=unix
>set enc=utf-8 fileencodings=

thanks.  I didn't have that.

jicman wrote:
> In article <opsmkl5qje23k2f5@ally>, Regan Heath says...
> 
> 
>>>Ok, this is interesting Windows at its best!  I have to completely  retype that
>>>whole program! :-)  Not a good thing.
>>
>>What? Why? Can't you open it, then do a save-as, or copy/paste into  another editor then do a save-as?
> 
> 
> :-)  I know exactly how you said that> :-)
> 
> Yes, I tried that.  I even opened the same program with notepad (that's as
> Windows as Windows can get) and tried to compile it and got the same error.
> Somehow, my dual keyboard system does not like those accented vowels.  I am now
> searching for a new editor.  I love vim, but this is going too far.
> 
> Which freeware editors have d syntax hightliting?
> 
> I am downloading one called Zeus that a d lover had on his page.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
Well, Kate does, but that's Linux (KDE) only.
And with NEdit you can make one, but that's X Window only.
Then there's KEdit, but that's the same story as Kate.

You could look up MultiEdit.  That's what I used for odd languages when I was on MSWind.  Again, it's a "define you own language" kind of thing.

I seem to remember hearing of others, but since they were MSWind only, I ignored them.  And again, you would need to define your own language.

I hear that there's a version of KDE for MSWind now, but that seems like an awful lot of work to go to for an editor, and besides, I don't know how well it works.  (It's still in the very early days.)

What I did when I started finding MSWind too much of a bother was to get a second disk, and run linux from that.  OTOH, if you don't need to boot frequently you could get a Mempis CD (or Knoppix) and boot from that.  I'm pretty sure that Mempis will let you save your files into files on a MSWind partition.  (Not certain, though, so a floppy might be needed for certainty.) Still, that's mainly a demo disk.  Booting from a CD is SLOW, and again, every time you need to load something that isn't already in RAM everything turns into molasses.