Brief Documentation

____________________________________________________________________ _______ | SaintEdit 1.1 Documentation Released October, 1993 | | ____________________________________________________________________ _____| Description _____________________________________________________________ SaintEdit is a System 7, squeaky clean, robust general purpose text editor-not a word processor, not a page layout program, not a draw program-originally designed to read and edit enormous text files from the internet. Though it was intended to be a simple, trivial piece of software when I started on it a few years back, it soon became a very significant, major project. SaintEdit has an intuitive, aesthetically pleasing user interface It is extremely fast and does not bog down when the file sizes get large. Though it is commercial grade software, I have elected to distribute it as a shareware product, ridiculously priced at a paltry $10.00. (To register, go to "Register SaintEdit" under the Apple Menu.) Features Include: ______________________________________________________ • System 7 Savvy • Multiple open windows • Memory dependent file size limit (greater than 32K!) • Extensive Undo/Redo support • Safe file saving routines • Extensive Search and replace • Color Day/Night Settings (change background color too!) • FastScrolls™ • Drag and Drop any TEXT file • Sleek Interface • Printing Support • Multiple Monitor Support • Auto read UNIX and DOS files without messing with converters • Save text files for Macintosh, UNIX, DOS, TeachText, TeachText Read Only • Speech Manager Support • And much, much more! System Requirements: ______________________________________________________ ANY Macintosh capable of running System 7, though SaintEdit really shines if you've got a color monitor and gobs of RAM. Memory Based Editing _____________________________________________________ I wanted speed, since RAM is abundant and cheap, there are no scratch files or spooling techniques, SaintEdit will be distributed with the RAM partition set to 1 M, this works rather well with a 512K text file load, although the undo support is memory dynamic, there are scenarios that can use up a lot of memory. As an extremely loose and general rule subject to change use the following formula - > (The sum of average working files) x 2. For example: I want to edit between 4 128K text files -> [(4 x 128) x 2] = 1024... FastScrolls ______________________________________________________________ I can already see all the E-mail: "uhh, Craig, I found a bug - the thumb in the scroll bar doesn't move ‘till I let go of my mouse. Like, what's the deal?" This is not a bug - it's a feature of SaintEdit. This FastScroll option lets you scroll all the way to the top or bottom of a document without "tripping" on the thumb. If it really irks you, and you want t…