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Article #23647Re: tabs in textedit
From: Tom Carstensen
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1988 19:17
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1988 19:17
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As far as I'm concerned, TextEdit is worthless because of it's 32K limit, non-handling of tabs, and the implementation is so slow. I originally added by on StdMeas and StdTxt routines to support tabs, but by doing this, selecting text was EXTREMELY sluggish and annoying. (Try typing in a line of 200 characters or so WITH tabs, and then selecting that line - moving the mouse back and forth - UGH!). I bagged TextEdit, and wrote my own which is overall, much faster. It's being incorperated into an Editor I'm developing, which will be finished soon. Since I rewrote TextEdit, I was able to support such things as rectangular selection (which I find most useful) and Hiding (folding in ) of text. :------------------------------------------------------------: : Tom Carstensen Usenet: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM : : Mentor Graphics GEnie: XPC23637 : : : : . . . and this shall be Max Headroom's finest hour. : : - Max Headroom : :------------------------------------------------------------:
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!cit-vax!elroy!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!tomc From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: tabs in textedit Summary: Textedit? Tab? 32K? come on! Keywords: tabs textedit Message-ID: <1988Jan14.111722.766@mntgfx.mentor.com> Date: 14 Jan 88 19:17:19 GMT References: <1860@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 24