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From: denn@violet.berkeley.edu (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CAPPS' (was:Text editor help)
Summary: SigmaEdit reply, etc.!
Keywords: CAPPS', SigmaEdit, Editors
Message-ID: <15290@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 88 17:58:17 GMT
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In article <549@uva.UUCP> borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:
>I'd like to take this opportunity to espouse the (in my opinions) extremely
>high quality and value of CAPPS' for LSC.  The interesting thing to note here
>is that you can now easily program your wishes--SigmaEdit is a poor ripoff
>(with near-0 reworking) of the Apple-Edit DA Sample that comes with CAPPS'.

   As author of SigmaEdit I take great offense at that comment!!  It is true
that the original core of SigmaEdit (like 1.0D1) was the AppleEdit DA that
comes with CAPPS' HOWEVER I think that if you look at SigmaEdit closely (or
even not that closely) you will find A LOT OF FEATURES that are not implemented
in the AppleEdit DA or even in the PEdit application!!  Some examples include
the Undo, Printing, PowerKeys, Typestyle dialog, Enter Ascii, Paren Balancing,
etc......  If you had even used SigmaEdit ONCE - you would have known this!

>What is really super, I think, are the two samples that come with it.  One is
>PEdit, a C-pretty printer, and the other is Apple-Edit, a DA.  These samples
>are extremely well-organized and written (I might have a few small
>differences of opinion a few places, but trivial), fully commented and
>provide a wonderful base for most Mac applications.  This is what I used to
>develop my shell.

   Agreed!  Both examples are well done (for the most part) and are easy to
follow and do provide nice shells for editing types of applications.

>For applications needing program-style text editing, which is a surprising
>majority in my experience, this library is what I need.  It works great!

   Just to point out that you can also use PEdit any place that you can use
TextEdit.  For example I recently used PEdit in a useritem inside a modal
dialog as the dialog required the ability to display/edit some source code
(so I needed tabs).  This was not that hard to do at all (no more so than 
doing the same thing with TEdit!)

>Aside: since I like Apple-Edit so much, and friends of mine like Sigma-Edit a
>	lot, I've decided to embark upon a furthering of that idea and flesh
>	it out with some features such as real printing, etc.  Feel free to
>	mail me ideas; the first version will read WriteNow and MacWrite
>	formats as well (already have that done...).  
>
   Good luck!  I guess that I will be seeing you in the DA menu then...

>Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
>Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS


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