. The only difference is that eText produces .etfd file packages rather than flat .rtf files.
The eText ``kernel'' system works & feels just like Edit. Even if you pay no attention to the other eText gegaws, it should work as well as Edit for RTF formatting and editing tasks, right down to the emacs keybindings . The only difference is that eText produces .etfd file packages rather than flat .rtf files.
eText adds a DocInfo to every document it creates. The document information stored in that object includes the author's name, document title, comments, keywords, etc., and parent- and cross-reference-links. eText scans your account at startup to cache all the docInfos it can find to build a navigable, searchable document tree. You can search any of the text fields with regular expressions, and view the document hierarchy.
eText allows you to embed arbitrarily complex, live objects into your document. MediaView, a heroic piece of software written by Dick Phillips at Los Alamos, orignated the concept of using the Text object's replaceSelWithCell: to embed interactive multimedia. eText extends the old metaphor to work easily with multiple-documents, hypertext references, and to standardize an Inspector-driven user interface to such embedded annotations.