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Subject: Will 7.x remove 32k limit in TextEdit?, or: Where oh where has my CoreEdit gone?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 17:58:38 GMT
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I heard a while back about an Apple replacement for TextEdit called -- I think
-- "CoreEdit", or some such.  It would have, I think, removed the 32k barrier
on text in TextEdit.

For whatever reasons it was never put into System Software.  Are we going to
see anything like this in 7.x?  The 32k limit on text in TextEdit is a REALLY
big problem IMHO.  Apple's answer is to write your own text handling routines
if you want to handle over 32k; TextEdit was designed for dialog boxes.

OK, but everyone KNOWS that TextEdit is used for far more than dialog boxes:
it's used as a primary text processing scheme in many apps.  And I think it's
really a bit much for each developer to be asked to 'roll their own'; in fact,
if it's easy enough for each developer to do it alone, why can't Apple do it
and put it in System Software?

Don't mean to sound flamey, and I know that Apple System Software folk have
their hands full, but after numerous years of the 32k limit, you'd think that'd
be fixed by now. :->

Robert

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