SiEd testing
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If  you use  an old-school  Palm PDA  (one with  screen and  stylus but
without any  sort of keyboard) then  you probably use (or  wish to use)
some  alternative text  input method.  An actual  hardware keyboard  is
probably the best (if not only) one.

There is a selection of these:  the Stowaway folding ones or some types
of small-format keyboards like the GoType.

But with the keyboard one can write relatively long texts which may not
fit into MemoPad limitations.

Then it is  possible to use an another application  like the SiEd. This
editor was  actually designed for use  with an external keyboard.  So I
have decided  to test it  and I  am writing this  text with use  of the
GoType keyboard and the SiEd editor.

The main  interface of the editor  is very simple  - a text area  and a
progress bar (it shows the actual line number and total number of lines
and also a file  name). The screen can be vertically split  to t. It is
possible  to have  opened different  files in  these view  or different
positions of the  same file. It is very useful  feature, I think. There
are also  other basic  features like stats  (both characters  and words
count) and usual Fn/Replace features.

In  my opinion  the  program is  relatively simple  but  it offers  all
essential tool  for writing and  basic editing of text  (spell checking
would be nice but it is probably not possible).


P.S. I wrote this phlog as a part  of SiEd testing. I decided to try if
it worth to be installed on the TRGpro. It does.

P.P.S. There is a problem with the SiEd's DOC files. The CSpotRun fails
it such file is in Palm's memory.  The TiBR can start and it sees these
files.  But it  crashes  when one  tries  to open  such  file. But  the
pdb2txtdoc UNUX  program can convert these  files to TXT es  easily and
without issues ("txt2pdbdoc  -d file.pdb"). This text  was converted in
this way.