"By the beginning of summer ‘89, FoxPro was turning into an impressive product. As an outgrowth of the new language added to emulate dBase IV, and our new window-based interface, many items present in earlier Fox products were substantially transformed."
Kerry continues:
"By the beginning of summer ‘89, FoxPro was turning into an impressive product. As an outgrowth of the new language added to emulate dBase IV, and our new window-based interface, many items present in earlier Fox products were substantially transformed.
One of these was our text editor. Two commands in the language would present this to a user, MODIFY FILE and MODIFY COMMAND. In FoxBASE+, the editor was simplistic. It just filled the screen with whatever file was being edited. Only one file could be edited at a time, and there was a rigid limit to how big that file could be. It was functional for developing dBase programs, but most hardcore users would buy an additional editing program to do real text editing work.
As coded by Eric, though, the new FoxPro editor was an animal of a different color (no pun intended). It resided in a window and users could have as many text files open concurrently as they liked. They could easily copy and paste text between different files. There was no limit to the size of the file. (No attainable limit, anyway; the actual limit for a text file was larger than most modern disk drives.) It was also blindingly fast. It could open hundreds of files in seconds and scroll text faster than it could be read."