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From: ge@phoibos.UUCP (Ge Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Editing large files (>32 K)
Keywords: textedit editing
Message-ID: <539@phoibos.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 16:33:50 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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I'm writing (with other people) a programming environment for a functional
language on the Macintosh. We'd like to be able to edit large files using
a builtin editor. We can't use MPW as we can't give that away to students
and other interested parties. Result: I have to write a (simple) point
and click editor for the Mac. Using TextEdit is a problem because of the
32000 character limit. Is it feasible to invisibly concatenate multiple
TextEdit objects, or must I write a simple TextEdit replacement.
Hints, example code, anything would be welcome. Figuring out how to
do it all by myself would take a lot of time, which I can't spare
unfortunately.

Ge' Weijers
Faculty of Math. and Comp. Sc.
University of Nijmegen
the Netherlands

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