Looking for another Editor

[Bruce Barnett]

mancer!dharvey at uunet (Doug Harvey) writes:
> Unfortunately, textedit does a poor job as an editor.  Macros, global
> search and replace?  Forget it.

Textedit does have shortcomings, but it does support macros.  Whatever
operations you do without changing the insertion point is stored. The
Again button does it again.

So you can search for a string, delete the string, go forwards two words,
insert a string, insert the deleted string, and insert another string, and
then move down two lines.

Press Again, and it does it again.

Also - considering that you can exchange two pieces of text, of any size,
from any text window, with just three keystrokes, it has more power than
many people think.

--
Bruce G. Barnett	<barnett at crdgw1.ge.com>  a.k.a. <barnett@[192.35.44.4]>
			uunet!steinmetz!barnett, <barnett at steinmetz.ge.com>

[[ From the description, I think claiming that textedit supports macros is
stretching it a bit.  How about "textedit supports a macro" instead?
Macro support ought to at least include the ability to name and retain
them.  --wnl ]]