Tex-Edit is a handy text editor that includes a built-in text reader! I keep a copy in my Apple menu and an alias on the desktop (for drag-and-drop operations). Tex-Edit is fast, easy-to-use and requires little memory. It is particularly adept at formatting text which is transmitted to and from a BBS.
Tex-Edit requires System version 6.0.7 or newer. If you wish to hear Tex-Edit speak, you should install the Apple’s Speech Manager in your Extensions folder. The program runs perfectly well without the Speech Manager.
The new Drag Manager is supported (if you have System 7.5 or Apple’s Drag Manager extension). Tex-Edit can open up to 32K of multi-styled text per window. Extended keyboard functions (Home, End, etc.), balloon help and undo are supported. Tex-Edit is System 7 compatible, 32 bit clean, 68040 cache compatible, Apple event aware and stationery aware. Tex-Edit is even able to open PICT files and TeachText read-only files.
Shortcuts:
• Triple-click to select a sentence.
• Quadruple-click to select a paragraph.
• Hold down option key to Open Any or Close All.
• Option-left/right arrow will advance the cursor
one word at a time.
• Option-shift-left/right arrow will extend the
selection one word at a time.
• Option-up/down arrow will move the insertion
marker to the beginning/end of the line.
• Option-home will move the insertion marker to
beginning of the file.
• Option-end will move the insertion marker to
end of the file.
• Option-shift-home will select all text up to and
including the current selection.
• Option-shift-end will select all text from the
current selection to the end of the file.
• Option-delete mimics the extended keyboard’s
forward delete key.
• Escape or command-period will cancel any dialog.
• There are command key shortcuts for all other
dialog buttons, based on the first letter in the
button’s title.
I used the wonderful THINK Pascal‚Ñ¢ compiler and would recommend it to any other Mac programmer. The source debugger is excellent.
Tex-Edit 2.7.2 is ShareWare ($5). Registered owners may obtain a copy of the Pascal source code. Just send a disk and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Tom Bender
5313 Beverly Drive
San Angelo, Texas 76904
You can also send feedback and obtain product support via modem:
America Online: TomBB
eWorld: TomBB
Internet: tombb@aol.com
I would like to thank E.J. Chichilnisky for suggestions, feature development and extensive beta testing and Martin Kimeldorf for extensive help with the manual.
Also try Eliza (clinical psychologist), Re-Pete (memory game) and Azile (Eliza’s evil twin), available on a BBS near you!
