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boo@primenet.com (Walter Ian Kaye) writes:

>In article <slvrmnD8Jrtr.J37@netcom.com>, slvrmn@netcom.com (Albert
>Silverman) wrote:

> > I have researched this problem is some depth, and it is my conclusion 
> > that PlainText (latest version 1.5.3) is far and away the VERY BEST text 
> > editor for general purpose use on the Macintosh. It is quick, has 
> > excellent keyboard editing shortcuts, _has SOFT word-wrapping_ (which, in 
> > my view, is ESSENTIAL), and many features which make it a pleasure to 
> > use. And perhaps best of all, it is FREE. There is currently NO 
> > competition out there in the jungle.

I got it on your suggestion, and it is pretty nice.  I disagree on your 
asssessment of soft vs. hard wrapping; you gotta remember to hard wrap 
for anything you'll upload for mailing or sending to others.  Matter of 
personal taste, I guess.  An odd thing though:  it suddenly will not open 
files from a dialog box!  Instead it opens up a window with a filename 
that was deleted.  Wierd... even after re-loading another copy from the 
.sit archive.  It also just quits unexpectedly if you exceed the 
partition limit.  The "command line" functions are nice -- get a 
directory listing in a window, put "open" in front of it, and it opens 
without waiting for the file dialog box.  Shades of UNIX...

>Maybe not for free, but for $5, there sure is: Tex-Edit Plus 1.3.4. It has
>soft word wrapping, supports Macintosh Drag and Drop, Speech Manager,
>STYLED text (fully compatible with SimpleText), colored text, set default
>font/size and window size/position, Mac/DOS/Unix end-of-line conversions,
>handles files of any size, smart quote/ligature conversions, and much
>more.

I take it the new version has exceeded the 32K limit of the version I 
tried 2 years ago ? :-)

> > Try it. You'll love it!

>I tried it, and read the docs -- it's no match for Tex-Edit Plus.


> > BBEdit Lite 3.0 is freeware and has numerous bells and whistles. 
> > Unfortunately, however, it HARD-wraps words, automatically adding a 
> > carriage return at the end of each line.

No problem for me.  THe neat thing about BBEdit is that it will take the 
memory it needs beyond the alloted partition as it needs it.

>BBEdit 3.1 (the pay version, anyway) finally added soft-wrapping. Just FYI.


>-Walter

I still am using a combination of McSink 6.5, BBEdit, and SimpleText.  
Different tool for different jobs...

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