Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Looking for another Editor Keywords: Windows Message-ID: <54@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 31 Mar 89 10:51:48 GMT References: <8903040309.AA11248@eds.com> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 17 Mar 89 18:30:45 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 219, message 9 of 16 mancer!dharvey@uunet (Doug Harvey) writes: > Unfortunately, textedit does a poor job as an editor. Macros, global > search and replace? Forget it. Textedit does have shortcomings, but it does support macros. Whatever operations you do without changing the insertion point is stored. The Again button does it again. So you can search for a string, delete the string, go forwards two words, insert a string, insert the deleted string, and insert another string, and then move down two lines. Press Again, and it does it again. Also - considering that you can exchange two pieces of text, of any size, from any text window, with just three keystrokes, it has more power than many people think. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett, [[ From the description, I think claiming that textedit supports macros is stretching it a bit. How about "textedit supports a macro" instead? Macro support ought to at least include the ability to name and retain them. --wnl ]]