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From: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Mac SystemWide editor
Message-ID: <1125taylorj@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 21:59:54 GMT
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In article <1793@esquire.UUCP>, David Yost suggests being able to have your
favorite text editor be the "default" editor for other applications.

I agree that this would be very useful.  You wouldn't have to get used to
different editors for SuperCard, HyperCard, your communications program, your
programming language, etc.  Maybe this could be handled with the
InterApplication Communincations package in System 7.0.  Although I'm not sure
how you could handle application-specific things such as the pop-up scripting
menus in SuperCard and PLUS.  Or something like putting the cursor on the
offending line in a source file when an error occurs.  Claris is making a big
push towards small, integrateable utilities; maybe this is another avenue in
that area worth pursuing.


Jim Taylor
Microcomputer Support for Curriculum
Brigham Young University
taylorj@yvax.byu.edu