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From: jon@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Summary: QUED/M: pure text data fork, uploading and other features.
Keywords: qued text edit
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Date: 25 Oct 89 21:32:25 GMT
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> In article <126813@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
> by rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
>
>I use Vantage as well, almost exclusively.  It is wonderful to jump in
>and out of it while in another application, like Red Ryder (was that a 
>plug :-)  It is a great editor, and as long as the user recognized that
>it is not a word or document processor, they will be well served.  The
>macro capabilities are nice, but underpowered.  I used to use QUED/M,
>the predecessor to Nisus (a reall word processor).  The macro
>capabilities in QUED/M(acros) are superior to Vantage, as the program 
>has a "watch me" capability.  You can split screens easily, etc.  I
>rather prefer Vantage's wrap-line feature, which places hard carriage
>returns at the end (so necessary when uploading files to a UNIX
>system).  And the price of Vantage is right!
>

By selecting "Set Line Width..." QUED/M will wrap the lines at any
character position you desire.

If you need to upload the file to a system that requires delimited lines
you can do that as well with the
Change dialog and GREP--a sophisticated pattern matcher. The grep
expression to search on is the following : :^|:e
(match with beginning of line OR end of document)
and the replacement meta-character is the following: \r
(the meta-character for carriage return, ascii 13)
Then click on the replace all button and your file is ready to upload.

I would also like to mention that the data fork in QUED/M (as well as
Nisus) is purely text, no translation program is needed to make it
text.

A few other QUED/M (Nisus) features that are useful:
-The searching capability allows you to search un-opened files.
-UNLIMITED UNDOS!
-10 editable clipboards.
-Auto save, backup and backup to second source.

In addition QUED/M allows:
-Memory management, displays available memory on menu-bar and allows you
 to purge purgeable segments from the heap.

There are obviously many more features...

If you have any questions give Paragon's Tech support
a call at 619-481-1477.


-jOn

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