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I'm trying to figure out a good way to do the following: For design
reasons I'll sometimes have two windows that will contain the exact
same text. The effect will be that of the split-screen editing
possible in MS-Word, Nisus, QUED, et al... Either window should
be editable and respond to the cursor keys, mouse, etc.

Now should I have both windows refer to the same TEHandle? Or
should I use a seperate TEHandle for each window, init them
with the same text, & send TEKey's to both to keep the text
exactly the same?

Currently I'm using 2 TEHandle's, one glitchy problem is when
I TEKey a cursor key to the inactive window a caret shows up.
I *must* send the cursor key, if I filter it out TEHandle will
lose track of where the insertion point is and subsequent real
chars get put in the wrong place. If only there was a way to turn
off the caret like maybe fool with the .caretState field in the
TERec, but it's undocumented so I don't know what to do...

It seems to me that if I use just a single TEHandle I'll have
some really trashy screen flicker in the inactive window when
I EraseRect; TEUpdate the inactive window. I'd like it all to
look smooth like those hi-priced split-screen editors mentioned
above.

Curiously, they don't use TE stuff at all - sez TMON, so I have
no idea howzit done... any hints? Thanks. - Ross

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