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.
