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From: ge@phoibos.UUCP (Ge Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Editing large (> 32K) files
Keywords: TextEdit replacement
Message-ID: <538@phoibos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 07:52:07 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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What is the best way to go when writing a text editor in the Mac that
needs only normal, basic features as style-less TextEdit provides.
The catch is that the editor must be able to edit files that are
quite a bit larger than 32K. I can imagine two approaches:

- write a simple TextEdit replacement (a lot of work reinventing the wheel)
- try to use multiple TEHandles, a tricky ClickLoop etc.

Could anyone 'enlighten' me on the subject. My colleagues and me
are writing a programming environment around our functional language
and graph rewriting system, but the environment does not have to be
as fancy as Think Cs. Using MPW is not practical, because one cannot
enroll every student using it into APDA, and we want to attract interest
outside the Mac programming community.

Any comments are appreciated,

Ge' Weijers
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Nijmegen University,
Nijmegen
the Netherlands

UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl -or- {backbone}!kunivv1!phoibos!ge