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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
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?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.171219.11636@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 17:12:19 GMT
References: <21346@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <21346@well.sf.ca.us>, by oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster):
> 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...
> 
> One of the few comments in the source of Core Edit says:
> ;; Papa Wigginton's genuine spaghetti code (now that's Italian)

As a followup: I went out and picked up DataPak's "Word Solutions" engine.
At $300 it may sound pricey, but there are no royalties for incorporation
in products, so the added functionality it added and the time it saved m
 was worth it.  I did spend about three days wrapping it up as a CEditText
workalike so that I could use it with Think C 4.0 and the TCL (most of that
trying to figure out how to connect with scrollpanes correctly).

It's fast, it works, and I don't have to think about it any more.  I don't
know better praise than that for a toolbox extension.

I've not tested DataPak's add-ons for WS: they offer a Rulers and a Virtual
add-on -- the latter removes the RAM-limited restrictions on the WS engine
by saving temp files to disk.  But if I need 'em, I hope they work as well
as the base product.

=Ned Horvath=