What is Saint Edit?

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 ver significant, major project.

SaintEdit was 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 at a paltry $10.00. […]

Features

• 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!

Download Saint Edit for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II