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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!siegel
- From: siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- Subject: Re: Programming Group and the 32k TextEdit barrier
- Message-ID: <BzJK8w.I8q@world.std.com>
- Organization: GCC Technologies
- References: <dnebing-191292195308@m64-134.bgsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:53:19 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <dnebing-191292195308@m64-134.bgsu.edu> dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu (Dave Nebinger) writes:
-
- (writes about apparent lack of options for large-file text editing)
-
- >1) Existing PD or ShareWare editors: There is quite a range of these
- > that are available to anyone who can ftp them. And these are all
- > very good programs. While they are fine as editor in themselves,
- > there still is no way to handle the files greater than 32k by
- > your own application. You must either communicate directly with
- > the editor or trust the user to do all of the work. While this
- > can solve the problem, it becomes quite a hassle for the user to
- > be switching in and out of two apps. Also, if you implement the
- > communication with the application, you rely on the fact that
- > the author will not change the communication method. If it does
- > change, you have to change your app to keep up compatibility.
-
- A number of text editors (BBEdit comes to mind) support programmable
- extensions. The inherent advantage is that the programmer only has
- to implement the external functionality, and the editor takes care
- of the rest. Also, users don't have to learn another application or
- have more than one application running.
-
- >4) There also exists the CAPPS library from Think that came out a
- > long time ago, but it is currently unsupported and I don't know
- > how to get my hands on it.
-
- The Programmer's Editor Package (PE Package) is a version of the Capps
- package which is supported, and provides an assortment of bug and
- compatibility fixes. Upgrades are available for owners of the Capps
- library package.
-
- >For these reasons, I would like to create something to fix these
- >problems. But since it is a large, somewhat complicated project, it
- >would probably be completed faster and easier as a group project.
-
- I disagree. A text engine, while nontrivial, is not complicated enough
- to warrant the effort of more than one or two programmers.
-
- R.
-
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