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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for a nice program text editor
Message-ID: <1989Aug9.051754.23821@alberta.uucp>
Date: 9 Aug 89 05:17:54 GMT
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Reply-To: simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike)
Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta
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In article <45792@tiger.oxy.edu> hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) writes:
>John Painter says in his post:
>
>>QUED (I can't remember the company) available through MacConnection
>>Works GREAT has macros, edits any TEXT file regardless of owner and
>>there is a hack (in the manual???) to cause it to be the texteditor
>>for files owned by EDIT.  Hope it helps...
>
>However, I should point out that IMHO, QUED has a brain-dead user
>interface. Instead of supporting the standard Apple file selection dialogs,
>thay have their own custom file selection process, which is a window that
>floats (or doesn't, if the window is not the currently selected window),
>and it has an automatic filter that only  displays TEXT files. It can be
>turned off, but the second you change directories, it is on again. All in
>all, very inelegant. I spent so much time fighting with the user interface
>that I threw it away and went back to Leonard Rosenthal's Sigma-Edit DA.
>
>David J Harr --no fancy .sig, I used all my REAL braindead ideas above--

Yes, but.... QUED's minifinder window allows one to add or remove files
from grep search paths, and one can copy the file names directly from the
window, giving one a basic version of unix's ls and grep without having to
open up MPW.  I've used most editors available on the Mac in the past
four years and have found it to be the most satisfactory overall.  In
particular, its implementation of regular expressions is very smooth.



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Simon Tortike, Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering,
The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6.
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