PowerPC version of QuoEdit supports Path Popup Menu and Proxy Icon on the window title available with Mac OS 8.5 and later.
To use the path popup menu, Command+click the window title and the menu comes down if the document has the file. Then choose a folder which you wish to show on the Finder.
To use the proxy icon, click and drag it to where you wish to move the file. But note that you cannot drag it while the file has unsaved change in that case the icon looks dimmed.

Modification mark

If proxy icon is unavailable on the system (earlier than Mac OS 8.5), ‘*’ mark (asterisk) is shown in the window header (as in the Window menu) while the document has the unsaved changes.
But if the proxy icon is available, the mark is not shown because the dimmed state indicates that the document has unsaved changes (or that the document has no file).
Note that only text modification affects these marks (that means style or window position doesn’t) in QuoEdit. (Remember QuoEdit is a plain text editor.)

Zooming

Principally, the standard size is printable area or 512 by 800 pixels if the printer driver seems to be unavailable. As an exception, when the text line width is set by pixel width or byte width, that width is the standard width. And it is restricted to the monitor size if the standard size does not fit the monitor size.

Live scrolling

Live scrolling is a newer feature of dragging thumb of the scroll bar; when you drag it, the contents of document window is scrolled synchronously.
If you hold down the Shift key while vertical scrolling, it always scrolls by one line and it is the smoothest scrolling in QuoEdit.
On the other hand, if you hold down the Control key at the beginning of dragging the thumb, it works in the traditional way. This might be good for you if your CPU is so slow that the live scrolling is burden.

Auto scrolling in editing

When the caret goes under/over the visible area of the document window as a result of moving the caret horizontally (by Right/Left Arrow key) or typing or deleting text, the visible contents automatically scrolls up/down by ‘half of the visible lines’ rather than ‘one line’. You may feel strange about this behavior if you are new to QuoEdit. Please learn it. The scrolling allows you to continue editing at the center of the window.

Tracking the file

QuoEdit tracks file of the open document. After you changed the location or the name of the file in the Finder, QuoEdit internally updates the information of the document file when it accesses the information again (likely at the saving). And if the name was changed, QuoEdit also updates the window title at the time.

Dialog boxes
“Typeface”, “Window Size & Wrap” and “File Options” commands set the properties of the front document window (or batch find result window) and they are saved in each document file (made by QuoEdit) as a resource.
The each dialog box has the “Prefer” button that immediately sets the preferences and the preferences belong to the application’s properties.

Print information set with the Page Setup dialog box is also a property of each document. You can choose whether or not to save the Page Setup information (generally 120 bytes size) in the document file with the File Options dialog box.

Window Position
If a document window was once moved by dragging, zooming or Apple event, the position is remembered at the saving. But if the window was once rearranged with the Arrange command, QuoEdit assumes those windows are not moved by the user and the positions are not remembered.

Properties of application

“View” and “Miscellaneous” commands in the last commands group of the Edit menu set the properties of the application.

And if no windows are open, “Typeface”, “Window Size & Wrap” and “File Options” commands set the properties of the application.

If proper script system including WorldScript II* is available on the computer, QuoEdit supports editing Japanese, Chinese or Korean language text whose characters set consists of both 1-byte and 2-byte characters.

Right-to-left direction language

If proper script system including WorldScript I* is available on the computer, QuoEdit supports editing Arabic or Hebrew text. Also editing bidirectional text would be available except showing highlight of the selection range.
But note that the basic line direction depends on the system direction of the time when the application launched (since version 0.6). So if you are going to edit right-to-left text (or left-to-right text using the ASCII characters), make sure that the system direction is proper before launching QuoEdit.**
The line direction is a property of the document but it is never saved in the file. Though you can set the line direction by AppleScript, it is for temporary use and setting it to opposite direction is not recommended especially for the bidirectional text.

*

WorldScript is available with System 7.1 and later.

**

Setting system direction is available with the Text control panel after installation of Arabic or Hebrew script system. But unfortunately, Mac OS 9 cannot set the line direction with the Text control panel. In this case, use a included script “Right <--> Left” to change the direction of the document though it is just a temporary solution. Another solution in Mac OS 9 is to register QuoEdit as Arabic or Hebrew language application by the Language Register utility included in the OS. (This issue was submitted to Apple Computer as a bug report.)