Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:00:05 +0100
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:28:44 -0400
From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
Subject: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
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I almost never use TextEdit for anything (abundance of better text editors), but I have a need to do something with it this week. I note that running the following
tell application "TextEdit"
tell document 1
make new paragraph at end of paragraphs with data "Hello World"
end tell
end tell
doesn't make a new paragraph. Repeated runs just stack words into the first paragraph. It appears that the only way to get a new paragraph in a TextEdit document is to put in a slug of text with a return in it. Is this thing really that lame?
and:
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:03:15 -0400
From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
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At 9:08 PM +0000 3/7/06, kai wrote:
On 7 Mar 2006, at 14:28, Bill Briggs wrote:
It appears that the only way to get a new paragraph in a TextEdit document is to put in a slug of text with a return in it. Is this thing really that lame?
Evidently so, Bill.
Oy. How sad is that? I'm doing a brief AppleScript tutorial on Friday and have had to ask the lab admin to load Tex-Edit Plus on all of the machines.
I wish Apple would eat its own dogfood.
Things are worst than that: did you try to select a word (a serie of characters)
in TextEdit ? :(
[That is choose some characters and mark them as selected with the selected
color...]
dogfood ? You meant catfood :)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:24:12 -0500
From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
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on 2006-03-07 9:28 AM, Bill Briggs at email@hidden wrote:
Is this thing really that lame?
Yes. I believe that TextEdit's scriptability is intended more as a demo of a
few techniques for developers than as a fully functional scriptable
application.
A character editor demo where you cannot select a range of characters ?
No, I am not having fun, I am crying _LOUD_ :(, check the tears in my pillow... ;)
No, no, there was one upon a long ago a "word editor" (was Quill its name ?)
that was here for the demos. But it was lost in the (one or another) transition...
But I find that it's very serviceable as a quick-and-dirty text editor.
I agree, but this is not the subject pal ;)
Emile
--
We all live in an half implemented world...
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