What is QUED?

QUED is a very specialized word processor that doesn’t do many things that word processors must do. For example, it doesn’t word wrap on the screen, it doesn’t allow a choice of type styles and it can only create single-spaced lines. 

Why is it even on the market? Well, QUED is the best tool a programmer could have for working with source code. This program is a code editor, and it's the best product of its kind. It has versatility and power beyond even its ad's claims. 

Ease of use has been designed in. There are keyboard equivalents for every menu item, and well-documented keyboard commands that go beyond the menu. For example, COMMAND-SHIFT-OPTION-SPACE deletes the word to the right of the cursor, COMMAND-SHIFT-OPTION-BACKSPACE deletes the word to the left of the cursor, and COMMAND-SHIFT-RETURN deletes the current line. Even the SFGetFile and SFPutFile dialogs can be operated from the keyboard. Having all these options is a great convenience when working with a mass of solid source code.

Users can have multiple documents open simultaneously, arranged in either the usual overlapping way or in a tiled format in which smaller areas of more files are visible. Up to 16 open files can be tiled on a single layer. 

QUED is fast because both the program and open files are loaded entirely into RAM. Available memory is constantly shown and updated on screen, at the right end of the menu bar. 

Among QUED's other outstanding features are an adjustable auto-save (the number of keystrokes is settable), the ability to split the active window into four independent panels, a global search that works on all open files (not only on the file in the active window), the ability to change a selection to all upper case or all lower case, extensive checking of user-set delimiters (for unmatched pairs) and a wonderful menu item called “Zap Gremlins,” which deletes those “illegal” characters that cause compilers trouble (such as the ASCII 3 generated by the ENTER key in MDS Edit).  

If you do much programming, get QUED. It's as good as that and as simple as that. If Paragon added word wrap and simple style and line space formatting commands, this would be an unbeatable word processor, too.

Bobker, Steven. (March 1986). QUED (Quality Editor for Developers). MacUser. (pg. 32).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac