Last updated: November 29, 2005
Compatible devices: Nokia Communicator 9300, Nokia Communicator 9500
Languages: English, Russian

Magic Text is a useful and convenient text editor for your Nokia Communicator. The main idea of Magic Text is to make text editing as handy as possible. Working with our text editor will save a lot of time and never disappoint you.

Magic Text has a great functionality that makes working with texts more convenient than before. It is the only text editor that can work with multiple files (windows) at the same time and easily switch between them. Magic Text is the fastest editor; for example, it takes only 7 seconds to load/save 300 KB file (up to five times faster than other programs). Magic Text supports multiple character sets - from old ASCII to Unicode and UTF7/UTF8 - so you can edit multilingual texts without any difficulties. Powerful search and replace engine allows you to perform delicate search and replace operations. Magic Text also supports clipboard operations, thus you can exchange text blocks with other applications, as well as with documents, opened in Magic Text.

With Magic Text you can edit not only a .txt files but any kind of plain text file, such as INI files, HTML pages, XML files, C++/C#/Java sources, Perl and PHP scripts, and so on. Magic Text will be a useful helper for programmers, HTML authors, writers and just for anyone who'd like to work with text. You can also use Magic Test for writing down your ideas, memories and even for diary.

When formatting is not essential and you don't need to include graphics, plain text files are a good bet for exchanging information. Plain text files have no formatting. There is no bold, italics, drop caps, or other fancy layouts. Plain text files are very portable. You can save almost any document as a plain text file and import it into other applications — even cross-platform from PC to Mac.

That's why we advise to work with plain text files and edit them with Magic Text, of course.

Here you can work with files.

'File' menu opened

New... creates a new file (new window) within Magic Text. You can save this file later using Save or Save As... commands.
Open... opens a file selection dialog to open a text file. You can switch between disks and folders.
Recent files shows the list of recently edited files.
Save / Save saves the current file. Magic Text won't ask the file name if it knows one.
Save / Save as... saves the current file under a different file name.
Properties shows the current file properties such as size, date, encoding, word count. Note that you can change the file encoding here!
Close closes the current file. If the file has been modified, Magic Text will ask either you want to save it.
Exit closes the program. If you have some modified files, Magic Text will prompt you to save them.

Edit menu opened

Cut cuts the selected text to the clipboard.
Copy copies the selected text to the clipboard.
Paste pastes the contents of the clipboard to the current file at the current position.
Select all selects all the text.
Find... searches forward or backward, from the current text cursor position or the start/end of the file.
Find again searches for the next entry.
Replace... searches for a piece of text and replaces it with another text. Search options are the same as for Find command.

View menu opened

Show title show title with file name. To save space, you may turn it off.
Wrap to screen wraps long lines.
Full screen turns off left and right bars. You may use this mode to maximize working space.

Tools menu opened

Settings opens program settings menu. Here you can set default encoding for new files and "Open" dialog, auto-saving when switching files, number of recent files in history and default font for editing.

Program settings

About shows some copyright information about Magic Text.
Register - please register the program to support its development and remove shareware restrictions.

You can have an unlimited number of files opened, however the total number is limited by the free memory size. To switch between opened files, simply select the necessary file from the rightmost menu position.

Selecting from multiple windows

Magic Text remembers the current position when you're switching into another window, so you don't need to scroll the file again.

When installed, Magic Text changes some file associations to open text files in the editor. By default these are plain text files with the following extensions: c, cpp, css, diz, dtd, h, hpp, inf, ini, log, nfo, php, php3, php4, phtml, pl, pm, py, sql, txt, xhtml, xml, xsl, xslt.

However if you are an experienced user, you can change this list by yourself! Just open C:\System\Data\MagicText\MagicText.ini file and edit it (with Magic Text, for example. To open the file in Magic Text, be sure to check "Show System folder" box in "Settings" - "Advanced"). It's the list of supported extensions. After editing, save the file and reboot the phone.

Please keep in mind, big text files need more free RAM. Although Magic Text supports unlimited file size, you won't be able to load large files if you don't have enough memory.

Magic Text is a shareware program. Until registered, it is fully functional except for two restrictions:
- you cannot have more than 2 windows;
- you cannot save files longer than 512 bytes in size.

Version 1.1 (September 10, 2005). Initial release.
Version 1.2 (November 29, 2005). Smart program launcher added - now you can open multiple documents in one Magic Text copy from any file manager. Improved file type recognizer.

The latest version of Magic Text for 9300/9500 is 1.2 and it has been released by SymbianWave on 29.11.2005.
Here you can download the trial version of Magic Text for 9300/9500.

Magic Text for 9300/9500 is distributed as Shareware. This means you can install and use it, but after 21 days of usage you must register the program or delete it from your device.