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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Spleen venting (was: Re: 32-bit OS)
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Date: 25 Aug 89 19:25:12 GMT
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In article <118@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu>, pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke) writes:
> As for TextEdit, I wish that it could do more than 32K characters and do
> so lickety-split, but then again, I am more interested in seeing it do
> tabs and super- and subscripts.

I have found that Capps' is a real nice TextEdit replacement (even if
THINK doesn't want to sell it any more :-().  The only thing I occasionally
wish it would do is word wrap, but.

For those who aren't familar with it, it's a package of editing routines
that seem to be pretty similar to TextEdit except (a) it uses longs for
offsets and sizes, thus allowing >32K of text, (b) it uses a gapped text
buffer to avoid moving potentially huge amounts of data around every time
you insert a character, and (c) it supports tabs and "escape hooks" (which
let you do magic things with control characters, like chage the text style).

With some blue smoke and mirrors, I even made an MPW library out of it, so
that I can use it with MPW C instead of THINK C.

Too bad THINK decided to stop selling it just as people were starting to
use it...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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