Re: AfxGetApp() returns NULL

The point here is that people have had such poor tools shoved down their
throats they
don't even know what is possible. Since they don't know what is possible,
they accept
whatever crap they're given, without thinking that there is an
alternative. I'm saying
there IS an alternative, and I see no reason I should be forced to accept
second-rate
tools just because Microsoft says "this is the only way to do it". A text
editor is the
single most important tool we have, and having one that ignores over forty
years of design
experience in how to edit text well is not excusable. We had EMACS as a
mature editor 30
years ago, and it was based on a lot of ideas that had been floating
around for at least a
decade. Then a whole new group of people discovered "text editing", never
saw a truly
powerful editor, and think the limits of their imagination are necessarily
the limits of
reality. Then the users see the limits of their tools and think that tab
is the only way
to indent, for example, and all indents must be multiples of 4 spaces, and
don't even know
it has been done better in the PC world for at least 20 years. I had more
capability in
the MS-DOS version of Epsilon in 1987 than I have in VS in 2007, and
vastly more
capability in Epsilon for Windows today. Until I can get that capability
in the VS
editor, I have no reason to use it. But if you limit people's horizons,
they don't know
what is possible. I know what is possible, and I want it. I see no
reason it should be
denied to me or anyone else because new features trump fundamental
improvements.