Re: Text editing...

Kaz Kylheku (kaz@cafe.net)
Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:20:13 -0800 (PST)

To subscribers of the xforms list from Kaz Kylheku <kaz@cafe.net> :

On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Antoine Fortier wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I'm trying to make a 'text editor' like application with Xforms, I'm wondering if someone
> have already made this or if someone have an idea of how to make this.
>
> I think there is a way to do it with multi-line input or with browsers but I don't know
> which is the best.

If you want to make a program whose central focus is text editing, it probably
will not suffice to use a ``cookie cut'' widget. Like who's going to use that
for anything but the most trivial editing tasks? You have to implement
your own sophisticated widget for serious text editing.

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