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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Will 7.x remove 32k limit in TextEdit?, or: Where oh where has my CoreEdit gone?
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Date: 25 Oct 90 03:04:10 GMT
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Apple lived up to its early promise, and I've got a copy of Core Edit. Core
Edit implements paragraphs of styled text, is a mass of assembly language,
and is quite buggy.  It is not script manager compatible (not surprisingly)
and can only handle 1 paragraph of text, you have to write the interpragraph
stuff yourself.  Except for support for the original Macwrite's ruler bar:
(tabs, indented or outdented first line) it doesn't do any more than styled
text edit, as documented by Inside mac Vol 5, and as available on all Macs,
except the Mac XL, the Mac 128, and the Classic Mac 512k (unenhanced, not to
be confused with the Mac Classic). Since it isn't script manager comaptible,
it does considerable less than the current styled text edit.

For my own use, I've written a dummy application that uses OOP so that
a single conditional compile flips it from old TextEdit to Core Edit to
new, styled Text Edit. I can tell you from personal experience that styled
Text Edit is more solid than Core Edit.

One of the few comments in the source of Core Edit says:
;; Papa Wigginton's genuine spaghetti code (now that's Italian)
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