text editor

[John Kiltinen]

Last Friday, Simon Lord <slord at mac.com> wrote:

>Has anyone written a humble text editor with abilities which
>rival those of Note Pad or TextEdit?  Are you willing to part
>with a copy?

How humble are you willing to go?  I have implemented a "Note Pad" as a
feature of my puzzles package.  It offers the user of the puzzles a single
field in which to park blocks of text that are perhaps copied to the
clipboard from the record of steps performed on a puzzle, or to write notes
for later reference.  I have implemented the standard keystroke equivalents
for copy, paste, and select all.  I have not implemented such other basics
as creating new text documents or saving separate text files.  (When the
user saves the entire puzzle, their note pad gets saved.  I have a print
utility which allows for printing from this field, but this utility is more
broadly defined.)

I have found that MetaCard makes it very easy to script for this sort of
thing, and it ought to be easy to add the features of a basic text editor.
The commandkeyDown message allows one to create a way of meeting the user's
expectations for keystroke equivalents of Edit menu commands even if one
does not want to have a standard menu.

If the limited start I have described would be of any use, contact me off
list and I can send you a copy of one of my puzzle stacks.

John Kiltinen


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