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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Capps Editor Toolkit
Message-ID: <1122@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:10:30 GMT
References: <7110@portia.Stanford.EDU> <3301@husc6.harvard.edu> <17498@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <17498@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Earle R. Horton) writes:
>     Writing a text management package which is based on QuickDraw is
>not difficult, it just takes a fair amount of time.  ...
>Get the MicroEmacs source code, or start from scratch, brew up a pot
>of double-strength coffee, and start coding it now.

Or, you can wait until the spring, when my TextEdit clone is published
in MacTutor.

It's a two-part article: the first part describes how mouse-tracking
works, while the second part has the sources for about 90% of TextEdit.
(I didn't implement ScriptManager or Styles.)  By rewriting the data
storage module, you could build your own editor kernel without too much
difficulty.  (He says, not having done so.)

Ps: it takes a large amount of time.

Martin Minow
minow@thundr.enet.dec.com