Re: Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
Re: Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:40:22 -0700
On 10/4/01 12:01 PM, "Dennis, Jim C (Cahners)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I often use Scriptable Text Editor for simple text processing, particularly
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as part of an indexing script that I've created for use with Quark
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documents. It's dictionary is basic and it's easy to script. The problem is,
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entries in the index may run into the thousands, so when the script copies
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text that it's indexing to Scriptable Text Editor and it fills up with text,
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at a certain point it quits with an "Out of memory" error. I know this is
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due to the maximum 32k file size for it.
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The question I have is, are there any alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
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out there that will not have a 32k max? I know that TextEdit in OS X does
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not have a max file size and works the same, but unfortunately I can't move
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over to using X because of other apps I have to use that don't have
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carbonized versions yet. And don't even talk about MS Word, which I find a
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pain to script.
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Tex-Edit Plus, $15 optional payment, is one of the most and best scriptable
text apps out there. Smile (free) is eminently scriptable, and a pretty good
text editor as well. No 32K limitations and much, much else in both of them.
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Paul Berkowitz