Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
- Subject: Alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
- From: "Dennis, Jim C (Cahners)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:01:53 -0400
I often use Scriptable Text Editor for simple text processing, particularly
as part of an indexing script that I've created for use with Quark
documents. It's dictionary is basic and it's easy to script. The problem is,
entries in the index may run into the thousands, so when the script copies
text that it's indexing to Scriptable Text Editor and it fills up with text,
at a certain point it quits with an "Out of memory" error. I know this is
due to the maximum 32k file size for it.
The question I have is, are there any alternatives to Scriptable Text Editor
out there that will not have a 32k max? I know that TextEdit in OS X does
not have a max file size and works the same, but unfortunately I can't move
over to using X because of other apps I have to use that don't have
carbonized versions yet. And don't even talk about MS Word, which I find a
pain to script.
Jim Dennis
Editorial Systems Specialist
LA 411 Publishing
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