[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Editing large files

ge@phoibos.UUCP (Ge Weijers) (03/23/89)

I'm writing (with other people) a programming environment for a functional
language on the Macintosh. We'd like to be able to edit large files using
a builtin editor. We can't use MPW as we can't give that away to students
and other interested parties. Result: I have to write a (simple) point
and click editor for the Mac. Using TextEdit is a problem because of the
32000 character limit. Is it feasible to invisibly concatenate multiple
TextEdit objects, or must I write a simple TextEdit replacement.
Hints, example code, anything would be welcome. Figuring out how to
do it all by myself would take a lot of time, which I can't spare
unfortunately.

Ge' Weijers
Faculty of Math. and Comp. Sc.
University of Nijmegen
the Netherlands

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in a crunch.

py198723@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Eugenio Sanchez Pe~a) (04/20/91)

	Hi, I'm a CS student in Mexico, and I want to know how I can edit
files larger than 32 K. Can't TextEdit work with files larger than 32K?
How can I manage this problem? I'd appreciate any comment or suggestion
about this.
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