pedit
At some point Iâll get round to a follow up to my Whatâs on my Treo (Part 1) review, but the Palm application Iâm going to discuss here merits a whole review of its own. When I got my new Treo 600, I wanted a sophisticated text editing application. Note that I didnât say âword processorâ. On the Palm, I donât want to be fiddling around with formattingâitâs pointless and just makes it harder to export the file to the desktop.
The consensus on fora1 and bulletin boards seemed to be that pedit was the vi of the Palm world. Those who are regular readers will know that Iâm a bit of a fan of vi, so I found that rather intriguing and encouraging. pedit comes in a number of different flavours, each with slightly different editing capabilities: pedit04 (aka pedit) can handle memos of up to 4K in size (the same constraint as the built-in Memo Pad on most Palm systems) and uses the Memo Pad database, while pedit32 can handle memos up to 32K. peditPro contains both of these versions in one handy package. I decided to live with the 4K limit of pedit04 because of another handy feature Iâll mention later, and because it uses the built-in Memo Pad database, making import and export of memos very straightforward.
pedit has two features in common with its spiritual brother vi:
- it is extensively controllable via keyboard shortcuts
- it has innumerable features
- as a consequence of 1 and 2, it has a rather steep learning curve
