Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:37:37 -0400
At 10:00 AM +0100 3/8/06, Emile Schwarz wrote:
>>At 9:08 PM +0000 3/7/06, kai wrote:
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>>>>On 7 Mar 2006, at 14:28, Bill Briggs wrote:
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>>>>>>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...]
Yes, I tried to colour a string in a TextEdit document. It doesn't understand text item delimiters either.
>>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:24:12 -0500
>>From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
>>Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
>>To: AppleScript-Users Mail <email@hidden>
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>>on 2006-03-07 9:28 AM, Bill Briggs at email@hidden wrote:
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>>>>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...
You are, I believe, speaking about the Scriptable Text Editor that was the "how to do an AppleScript implementation" demo that Apple produced ages ago. It's a pity they don't follow that model themselves. It worked a treat.
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