QEdit's configurability was amazing. Back in the early 90s I had a completely hand built config, a feat I have never dared to repeat with subsequent editors. I wrote a lot of code in it at home, and nagged my employer into buying some licenses for the sophisticated programmers among the staff (it was a bank, so not many, but a few!). I would edit locally and FTP to the server rather than use vi directly there!

When my computer illiterate aunt decided to write a book back in the early 90s, I set her up with a minimalistic QEdit, a few bat files to perform backups, versioning, etc automatically and a floppy disk for each day of the week plus a daily backup one. Simple instructions and process, simple editing setup, and two years later the 670-page book was finished and published, and she was ready to actually learn how to use a computer.

So a big thank you for creating such an excellent tool!

QEdit FTW! Thank you! It was my go to editor for ages. Used it to write all my AutoCAD shareware.

It took me forever to unlearn the Wordstar key bindings.

I'll have to look it up.

Thanks for the kind words. I was forced to change the name a few years back (1992) - it is now called TSE, or The Semware Editor.

Unlearn Wordstar key bindings? Isn't that sacrilege? :-)

I have several former co-workers that wouldn't use anything but QEDIT/TSE.